SEASONED TRAVELLER

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 18

SEASONED TRAVELLER

LOVER OF AIRWAYS

Tliat Los Angeles was the prettiest city and the Japanese the most hospitable people in the world was the opinion' expressed by Mrs. M. Sturgeon, a widely-travelled Californian wlioV?arrived, in. 'Auckland by the Aorangi on/Tuesday, states the "New Zealand Herald.' Mrs. Sturgeon, who is now on her third world tour, has flown over 20,000 miles in the course of tier travels, and she praised this form of transport very highly. Among her most iiiteresting flights were a trip from Singapore'to. Sumatra\and back in the same day, a journey at the height of 17,800 feet over Mount Popocatpetl in Mexico and another over the Grand Canyonl • . •

Mrs. Sturgeon left Auckland yesterday for Australia, where she is looking forward to making friends with the little koala bears, of which 'she has heard a great deal. Her trip will also include a visit to Java, Jerusalem, England, and Scotland (which she will see for the first time), Norway, Sweden, and a good deal of Europe, after which she will return to her home town, Los Angeles. Speaking of the latter she said that this city owes a great deal to the Japanese, who do all the growing of fruit and vegetables. The land is extremely fertile when irrigated, though occasionally frosts have a disastrous effect upon the crops. ;..

Among the interesting experiences which Mrs. Sturgeon will enjoy on her present trip is a meeting with a Scot-'.' tish mother and'son who have corresponded with her for thirty years, and whom she has never seen. She will also meet pen-friends of hers in Sydney and Melbourne, places which, Kke New Zealand, she has never before visited;