NEW ZEALAND GIRLS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23118, 18 February 1937, Page 16

NEW ZEALAND GIRLS

“SPLENDIDLY INDEPENDENT" Arriving by the Rangitikl from London, Miss M. Anderton, of Ireland, is visiting New Zealand in the course of an eight months’ tour, and, after spending a short time in both the North and South Islands, will return to Ireland via the East. With a home in County Limerick and another in the South of France, Miss Anderton lives part of the year in each place, and also spends much time in travelling. Although it is almost nine years since she last visited New Zealand, she said to a northern paper representative on her arrival that it was still one of the most beautiful countries in which she had lived. On her last visit she had been particularly pleased with the appearance of New Zealand girls, who were generally taller and slimmer than their English sisters. Miss Anderson said she had travelled so much and met people of so many different nationalities that she could almost discern a woman’s nationality by her build. “New Zealand girls, on the whole, walk well, dress and speak carelessly, have charming manners and are splendidly independent,” Miss Anderton said. She thought the women of New Zealand and England were very similar, while the American woman was constitutionally much hardier, and less tall. In Miss Anderton’s opinion the German woman possessed the perfect figure. Although many of them were rather heavily built, they were beautifully proportioned and erect. The hands of the Japanese women were the most expressive she had seen.