TUNISIAN TOUR

Press, Volume C, Issue 29498, 27 April 1961, Page 23

TUNISIAN TOUR

- Queen Mother Cheered (Rec. C pjn.) TUNIS, April 25. Sheuta of “Vive la Reine” and the traditional Arab women’s “Yuyu” cries of joy greeted the Queen Mother when she visited a clothing factory today. Earlier, white-robed, veiled' Moslem women cheered and waved as she drove through streets of flat-roofed, white houses to the headquarters of the National Union of Tunisian women.

The newspaper “La Depeche Tunisienne" came out with the compliment: ‘•The Queen Mother has conquered Tunis with her smile.’’

At the N.U.T.W. headquarters. the Queen Mother met Tunisian women in modern European dress, a girl wearing a national wedding costume in silver and with baggy trousers, and women in traditional dress with tattooed faces.

Speaking in fluent French, she wished success to the union before being offered mint tea and sweetmeats.

Gifts presented to the Queen Mother included a replica of a Roman mosaic from the ruins of Carthage. Outside the clothing factory. where young girls are trained for dressmaking, two girls in white smocks greeted the Royal visitor with a banner of welcome written in English.

The Queen Mother tonight gave a dinner for the Tunisian President, Mr Habib Bourguiba, and 42 guests aboard the Royal yacht, Britannia.

Theft of Tools.— The Lyttelton police are still investigating the disappearance last week-end of tools valued at £4O from the Lyttelton Harbour Board’s new building, now under construction in Norwich quay. Lyttelton. A smaller quantity of tools is also missing from the watersiders’ Centennial Hall at Lyttelton, and has not yet been traced.