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Lake County Mail, Issue 30, 17 December 1947, Page 5

Dominion, and was told that she alone remained out of the eight assistants previously employed, and even then she felt ashamed to take her wages, as trade was so poor. Coupled with the abundance of dress goods she had noticed, the English girl also remarked on the plentitude of glass, and chinaware in Wellington shops. Tea services were unknown in English shops, as were matching cups arid saucers. She recalled having toured districts in London searching for a few odd cups and considering herself lucky if she got beakers, a type of handleless thick china cup. “ Last, but not least, your food shops, outstanding among which are the butchers,” she stated, “with windows well filled. I have not seen a avcllstocked meat shop for several years. It is good to see so much, but I feel sad in heart when I think of the brave ■people back home still sacrificing so much to survive. Your food shops are well stocked with all -the good things of a pre-war England. Nearly all foods are rationed there.” Coming to a strange land and alone, she said she had been much impressed by the welcome extended to her by total strangers. She had never felt lonely since coming here and had been happy in the warmth of the New Zealanders’ friendliness. &he cousideied that in Britain’s present struggle the people had a true and sinceie fiiend in the people <»f the Dominion.