Woman's World

Wanganui Chronicle, 6 November 1950, Page 7

Woman's World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Mrs Harold Jones, Kent Road. St. John’s Hill, leaves this morning for a visit to Wellington. On a first visit to New Zealand is Mrs V. McCaul-Dell, of Knightsbridge, London, who plans a five months’ stay. Mrs McCaul-Dell came to New Zealand from Africa, where she has spent the past two years travelling extensively. In that time she has visited Basutoland, Zululand, Rhodesia among other areas and stayed several times in Cape Town. After her tour of the Dominion the English visitor plans to see something of Australia before returning to Africa. There she hopes to spend the winter in Durban and tour in Nairobi and the Belgian Congo. Mrs McCaul-Dell does not expect to return to England till the beginning of 1953. A New Zealand Christmas will be experienced in Hawke’s Bay, where she has been invited to stay with friends.

Barbara Ward, one of the most distinguished Englishwomen of her generation, has surprised England by announcing her engagement to an economic adviser to the Australian Government. Her future home will be in Australia. After a distinguished beginning in French, English and German universities, she became assist-ant-editor to the Economist in 1939, when she was 25. During the war, she became a leading light in the Brains Trust. Her knowledge of philosophy is profound. Recently, Barbara Ward was a governor of Sadler’ Well and the Old Vic., and a governor of the 8.8. C. At Oxford, she was an exhibitioner, and took an honour degree in philosophy, politics and economics.