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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30983, 12 February 1966, Page 2

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When the University of Canterbury reopens, another of its own graduates will be on the lecturing staff of the psychology department. She is Mrs W. Gordon, formerly Miss Adrien Fitch, who recently returned after three years in Britain.

After her marriage to Sur-geon-Lieutenant W. Gordon, R.N., to Aberdeen in 1962, Mrs Gordon worked as a clinical psychologist in mental hospitals in Fife and later at Fareham, when her husband was posted to the South of England. She already had the distinction of being the first woman psychologist attached to the Royal New Zealand Navy. “But when my husband was posted to Malta for about six months I took the opportunity of having a holiday,” Mrs Gordon said yesterday. Skin-Diving

Malta she found was a paradise for skin-diving in the clear waters of the Mediterranean, and she was not deterred when an unexploded bomb was taken out of the water only about 50 yards from where she had been swimming. In Malta she also spent much of her time roaming round the remains of temples which had been there since about 3000 years before Christ But the island which won the George Cross for heroism under bombing and blockade tn the Second World War had another side to see: poverty and unemployment. The unemployment problem was partly attributable to the fact that the British services were cutting down their bases on Malta and had less work for the local inhabitants end their very large families, she said. Many of the Maltese were now migrating to Australia.

“It was quite pathetic to see a young man walking down to a ship for Australia, as we so often did, with just one suitease on his shoulder,” she said. “Though the Maltese are such closeknit, family people, no-one ever seemed to go down to see the emigrant away.” From Malta Dr. and Mrs Gordon returned briefly to England and Scotland. Then they set out on a six-weeks’ camping tour of Europe before coming to Christchurch to live.