SEEING THE WORLD

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20513, 3 September 1936, Page 12

SEEING THE WORLD

That New Zealanders are excessive eaters was one observation made oy Frau Lily Krug, a German journalist, during a conversation with a newspaper representative “You have seven meals a day instead of three," continued Frau Krug, who speaks English with a slight foreign accent but has an excellent command of idiom. “We did it in Germany before the war and we were ridiculed for it. It is not so now. There is an Indian proverb which says, ‘Never speak to a white man till after his second meal.’ ” Frau Krug also contended that the average house in this country was too large, making too great a demand upon the time and energy of the housewife. After the death of her husband, who was a well-known artist and airman. Frau Krug set out to see the world and to study its peoples. She has spent ten years in travelling in Spain, America, Japan, South Africa and India, with Intermittent visits to Hamburg and Berlin. Among many occupations she has held that of “nightwatchwoman” in New York and has worked in research laboratories in Japan. She speaks fluently in English, French, and Spanish as well as her native tongue, and has a knowledge of Italian. As a journalist she has written accounts of her travels for numerous publications. Of her own country Frau Krug re- j marked with a smile: “I think it is j time that you shake hands with Germany now and eat once more German I sausages—not Belgian.” There were many ways in which Anglo-German friendship could be improved and extended, she added. The natural affinities between the two peoples were so great that future enmity between them was unthinkable. Frau Krug was emphatic on the subject of New Zealand's need of a greater population. She is of the opinion that more economic manufacture of necessities from raw manufacture of necessities from raw material which is abundant here would be made possible by supervised immigration.