AN AMERICAN VISITOR

Waipa Post, Volume 36, Issue 2146, 19 April 1928, Page 4

AN AMERICAN VISITOR

KEENLY INTERESTED IN OUR NATIONAL LIFE. Professor S. E. Longwell, of the Biology Department of Middlebury College, U.S.A. is spending his sabbatical year in research work in the southern hemisphere. He has spent three montths in Australia travelling 5000 miles and visiting every zoological garden in the Commonwealth. Coming jto New Zealand, he is spending a month in meeting the principal men of science and visiting historic scenes and places of natural interest, collecting motion picture films, lantern slides and photographs. On Monday last he visited Te Awamutu and was the guest of Rev. and Mrs Trill. He was shown the old Mission House, the historic churches of St. John's, and St. Paul's, Hairini, and visited the monuments at Kihikihi and Orakau.

He was greatly impressed with the work of the Te Awamutu Dental Clinic as demonstrated to him by Nurse Green in her office. No actual work on the children's teeth is done in New England by the visiting nurses and he intends conveying a renort of this most valuable work with him. While in Hamilton on Tuesday the distinguished visitor was shewn over the N.Z. Dairy Co."s large butter factory at Franktcn and the Waikato Hosnital. At both places he was courteously received, and the inspection revealed to him many unexpected excellencies that he says will be of interest to Americans.

Professor Longwell is now in Rotovua but will return to Te Awamutu on May Ist. when the vicar will take him to Arammi +o see the fossilized forest, which, the Professor declaims, is the only standing fossilized forest (as far as he knoAvs) in the world.