Hostess at Expo ‘70

Te Ao Hou, 1972, Page 47

Hostess at Expo ‘70 continued from page 27 hostesses were allowed to stay on at the apartment for two weeks to recover from a hectic six months. I then went on a three month world tour and am now back in New Zealand working as an announcer for the N.Z.B.C. Looking back now, I still enjoy some of the things that happened to me. I became very fond of one of the Japanese hostesses, and invited her to stay in our apartment before I left Japan. We had no extra beds, so had a lot of fun dividing my divan into mattress and base. After a friendly argument, my friend slept on the mattress on the floor. Much later, when round the other side of the world, a friend said to me, “Didn't you realise who she was? Didn't her name give you a clue?” I was quite mystified, and was astonished to find that my Japanese friend was the daughter of a well known millionaire! So I virtually had a millionaire sleeping on my bedroom floor. My experiences of 1970, Expo and my world tour, sometimes seem like a dream. Only when I look at my photo albums and answer my overseas correspondence do I realise that it all did happen.