N.Z. A WHITE MAN’S COUNTRY, SAYS EX-INDIAN OFFICER

Grey River Argus, 2 June 1948, Page 4

N.Z. A WHITE MAN’S COUNTRY, SAYS EX-INDIAN OFFICER

AUCKLAND, June 1. “We are sick of colour bars .and native problems—this seems to be a white man’s country,” said a former Indian Army officer, Major F. L. H. Hill, who arrived by Skymaster from. Vancouver to-day, with his wife and - two daughters. They are going to Foxton to join an Indian Army friend, Major F. J. Woodhous.e. After leaving India, Major Hill worked in England as an engineer with a bus company. WOMAN FROM CANADA CRITICISES N.Z. AIRPORT AUCKLAND, June 1. “I have never known anything so bleak—it must give travellers a 1 shocking, impression of New Zealand,” exclaimed Mrs Catherine Terry, on her arrival by air to-day with her three young children, from Michigan. The daughter of Mr Leslie Maunsell, of Wairarapa, Mrs. Terry.-' married a United States marine and is here on holiday after four years in America. She is not impressed with the alterations in progress in the airport reception building. Even at small places en route from Vancouver the facilities and reception arrangements were better than at Whenuapai. A combination of British; and American ideas would be an excellent thing, she thought, adding: “The first thing you need in New Zealand is central heating.”