Miscellany
Forever Wandering. By Ellen Roberts. Oswald - Sealy. 168 pp. Ulus.
Ellen Roberts is the widow of a doctor. Both did splendid service in New Zealand at the time when disasters struck the Dominion. This book is the story of their partnership in the healing art and also of the many journeys they took together, and latterly the wanderings of Mrs Roberts in the Far East and elsewhere.
Particulary interesting is the vivid account of the 1918 influenza epidemic. Mrs Roberts’s husband had a practice at Rakaia. She drove him to his patients and helped him often in attending to the sick. Then when the earthquake struck Napier in 1931 Doctor Roberts and his wife were in Hastings. Few accounts of the earthquake can match the story they tell of the havoc; it is a story full of tenderness for the victims and of the courage of ordinary people when their world was in ruins.
The author has the sea in her blood. The voyages she took not in liners but in cargo and tramp ships—are described with much humour. This is a happy book as well a§ an absorbing one.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31007, 12 March 1966, Page 4
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191Miscellany Press, Volume CV, Issue 31007, 12 March 1966, Page 4
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