TOUR OF WORLD DESCRIBED

Press, Volume C, Issue 29509, 10 May 1961, Page 2

TOUR OF WORLD DESCRIBED

Canterbury Women Meet

A vivid account of a swift world tour was given members of the Canterbury Women’s Club in Christchurch yesterday by Mrs Stanley Fogg. Mrs Fogg and her husband were away from New Zealand for three months and a half. During that time they travelled extensively in the East. Europe, the Contmen’. and Britain. Yesterday. Mrs Fogg described the people and their ways of life in the places she visited “Switzerland looked as if a giant lawnmower had been run over the whole country.” she said. “Even the grass beside the roads had been neatly trimmed and the farm pastures looked like golf links.” After that, German countryside appeared untidy, except for Cologne, where "up-to-the-minute” flats and hotels had replaced old buildings with appalling plumbing and inconvenient living quarters. “Saturated” Venice was “saturated with water and covered with moss,” but Mrs Fogg found shopping easy in the narrow streets that separated the buildings behind the canals, as they were bare of traffic. In Cairo, she said, the school-age children of wealthy Egyptian families were dressed in a manner that would almost put some fashion-conscious New Zealanders to shame. But other, poorer children were clad in rags. “Everywhere there is evidence of the improve-I ments President Nasser has; planned being carried out,’’ said Mrs Fogg. Mrs Fogg was introduced by the president of the club, Mrs C. Shaw. During the afternoon there was a programme of songs by Mesdames I. Greenway and 3. McWilliam, who were accompanied by Mrs W. E. Olds. Mrs G. Bielby