MISS NINA BRENTNALL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume 1, Issue 14, 21 February 1914, Page 4 (Supplement)

MISS NINA BRENTNALL.

Miss Nina T. Brentnall, the interesting little lady who is delving her way through conferences back to India, is student secretary in connection with the Y.W.C.A. at Calcutta. An Australian by birth —a Sydney-sider, to be precise—she commenced Association work about five years ago in Adelaide, South Australia. After a year there, she went to- the land of rajahs and magic and Orientalism, the land that Kipling has made us all hanker after — went there, and, metaphorically speaking, laid her heart on its altar. "It's the most fascinating country," she said to a SUN representative, " and I'm going, back to it just as soon as ever I can* land of surprises, I call it. From day to day one never knows what is going to happen. It's got a real hold on me, and, honestly, I feel as if I'd never like to live anywhere else." "And your work—is it just amongst the natives?" was asked. "Natives and Eurasians," Miss Brentnall answered. "And. I find it very absorbing. I shall give addresses throughout the conferences concerning it, and I hope I shall manage to interest my listeners." Taking into consideration the bright, magnetic personality of Miss Brentnall, and the many wonderful experiences that she must have had within the last four years, one might safely venture to say that there is little doubt of that.