BACK FROM ENGLAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 261, 2 October 1940, Page 8

BACK FROM ENGLAND.

DR, AND MRS E. CLARKE

At present staying with her parents, Mr and Mrs Neil Campbell, of Kauwhata; is Mrs Clarke, who with her husband, Dr. Edgar Clarke, and their small son, recently returned to New Zealand irom England. Dr. and Mrs Clarke lived in Nelson for two years after their marriage, and went to England just over two years ago. They settled near Kew Gardens, and Dr. Clarke took up post-graduate work in London hospitals. When war broke out Mrs Clarke and her infant son moved to Surrey, but returned to London after some months- Eventually, Dr. and Mrs Clarke decided to return to New Zealand, and left just before the capitulation of France. En route to their port of departure the New Zealanders passed troop trains of soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk, and later, as their ship proceeded down the Channel, craft of every kind, laden with soldiers, passed' them. Eventually Dr. and Mrs Clarke arrived at a Newfoundland port alongside the "ship in which Princess Juliana of the Netherlands had crossed. They visited New York, where the lights seemed dazzling after,. the black-out in London, and saw the World Fair, where they were greatly interested in the various pavilions, but confessed a little disappointment with the New Zealand display. The French court was very elegant, with beautiful paintings, china and crystal, while over the white facade of the Czechoslovakian building was the following inspiring message uttered by a CzeCh refugee Irom German oppression 3000 years ago: “After the t'empest of wrath has passed the rule of the country will return to thee, oh Czech people!” In front of the Polish pavilion stood a tall openworked brass tower, which, the visitors were told, was being broken up and sold to gather money to aid the Polish refugees. A stay of three weeks was made in New York, to which city the travellers returned after a visit to Philadelphia, and then the journey to New Zealand was continued uneventfully. The peace of this country certainly made them feel very “far from war _ alarms and very thankful for its security, although Mrs Clarke expressed regret that she had left behind her brother, Dr. "Wallace Neil Campbell, who has been three vears attached to a central London hospital, and that she could no longer wander at will in Kew Gardens to revel in the bluebells and rhododendron grove. | .