HOLIDAY VISIT

Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1933, Page 7

HOLIDAY VISIT

LADY WILFORD AND DAUGHTER. ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Feb. 16. On a short holiday visit to New Zealand, Lady Wilford, wife of the High Commissioner for New Zealand in London, Sir Thomas Wilford, returned by the Rangitiki. She is accompanied by her daughter, Miss Isobel Wilford, who has won a considerable measure of success on the London stage, and they will spend about eight weeks in the Dominion before returning to England.

Lady Wilford. paid a tribute to the kindness and genuine interest in New Zealand shown by important personages in official and social circles in London. “It is quite true that in England one feels proud of being a New Zealander,” she added.

Lady Wilford also said that Lord and Lady Liverpool, Lord and Lady Jellicoe, and Sir Charles and Lady Alice Fergusson continued to take keen interest in everything appertaining to New Zealand,

Miss Wilford has been in England for about seven years, during which time she has appeared in several notable stage successes in London. She has had the privilege of understudying several leading West. End stars, Tallulah Bankhead among others, and replaced several of them for varying periods when they were absent through illness. Miss Wilford said that after her holiday in New Zealand she intended to return to England and take up stage work in London. She had taken up the stage as her career, and had found it full of varied interest