MAUDE ROYDEN.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1929, Page 6

MAUDE ROYDEN.

INTERVIEWS ON RETURN. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) . LONDON, dan. 13, •> Maude Royden arrived at London from a world tour. -She was greeted at Victoria Station hv scores ot admirers and bouquets. She was quite prepared for the questions anent cigarette smoking. According to the News Agency she confessed to a certain amount"of criticism in Australia. “In fuc,t 1 could not conceive n. few (igarottes could create such a terrilic row. Asked if she would smoke one now she were back in a free country. sh> replied that she refused to lie bullied in .America" or Australia all the time she was (there. She described Australia as a rough and ready country even in the cities, but Australians ; 'were. wonderfully . lipspitablej to. her. ’though a good tlgal were .scandalised at the idea of her preaching in the Cathedral which she did at Adelaide.” This also caused such a sensation that \vjieu I preached at the Cathedral at the*• church the crowd, was positively dangerous. Australia was little under the impression that England was sending • her duds or ■ thrp.wouts, living on the dole. She wished the word “dole”" could he abolished. It embittered people, besides giving a wrong impression. Miss Royden’s views were more moderately expressed in the “Observer.” She stressed tile live interest of Australia in international affairs. She found them tremendously keen on the work of the League of Nations. She urged speakers going thither to choose that kind of subject. She praised baby clinics for the reduction of infant mortality. Nothing was lacking in the reception at Port Adelaide, once the ice was broken. 'Hie biggest crowd was at the church.