Coming to New Zealand.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1933, Page 4 (Supplement)

Coming to New Zealand.

Lady Wilford and Miss McLean, 0.8. E., have definitely booked their passage to New Zealand by the Rangitiki, leaving on January 12. Lady Wilford’s stay ,in New Zealand will be brief, as she intends being in London again for the comihg season, wrote a London correspondent on December 15. As the tenancy of their Chelsea house expires in March, the High Commissioner and Miss Wilford had been considering a change of residence after the departure of Lady Wilford. On reconsidering, however, the decision has been arrived at to continue the tenancy until the termination of the High Commissioner’s official appointment in London early in 1934. Books For Children.

The secretary of the Children’s Book Club, London, speaking of the literary tastes of modern children, stated that Fennimore Cooper, Marryat and Ballantyne were no longer popular favourites. “Treasure Island” and “Alice in Wonderland” would never be superseded. At the book club there was little call on them because they were on the nursery bookshelf in every home. “Westward Ho!” was certainly going out of favour. Jane Austen was definitely popular with girls. Once they began they read the whole series.

Miss A. McGill (Wellington), Miss M. Gore (Wellington), Mrs. B. S. Mitchell, Miss Mackintosh (Wellington), Mrs. G. A. Eddowes (Auckland), Mrs. A. W. Budge (Stratford), Mrs. Parnell (Palmerston North), Mrs. T. L. Horn (England), Miss P. M. Luxtoi. (England) and Mrs. Picot (Melbourne) are guests at the Criterion Hotel.