A COMPLIMENTARY VISITOR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23707, 14 January 1939, Page 11

A COMPLIMENTARY VISITOR

•‘To me New Zealand is the right little, tight little country,” said a visitor from Canada, Miss Eileen O’Brien, of Vancouver, 8.C., to a journalist friend in Christchurch. Miss O’Brien, who is a chartered life underwriter, came to New Zealand for the marriage of one of her cousins, Miss Marjorie Bell, of Wellington, who has been an instructor in dancing and remedial exercises. Later she is to stay with her cousin, Mr Robin Bell, of Waipawa, and see something of New Zealand farming. She will leave New Zealand on January 24, after visiting Rotorua. From the first minute since she set foot in New Zealand Miss O’Brien has felt as if she had drooped into England. “New Zealand breeds a different kind of men,” she said, “from Canada and the United States. And every man in New Zealand has shiny shoes, and you can put your shoes outside your hotel door here and in Australia, a thing you would never dare do in Canada or America. New Zealand ways are much more akin to those of the Old Country.” Miss O’Brien has studied at Bedford College, in London, and holds the diploma of hygiene of that college. It was therefore with special pleasure that she met Miss Janet Moore, of Wellington, who was lately at Bedford doing post-graduate work there.