Countess Haig Arrives

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 7

Countess Haig Arrives

FULFILMENT OF TRUST. ASSISTING EX-SERVICEMEN Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Feb. 8. The Countess Haig arrived by the Awatea to-day, coming as the guest of the Government on au invitation signed by the Prime Minister, Right Hon. M. J. Savage. She said in an interview that the object of her coming was in tho nature of the fulfilment of a trust, her husband having intended to visit Australia and New Zealand because he had visited South Africa and Canada. He most earnestly wished to meet his brave comrades from Australia and New Zealand, who fought under his leadership, thank them in person for what they had done and urge them to join up with the British Empire Service League. They had arranged to come together to Australia and New Zealand in 1928, she said, but her husband passed away in January of that year and she had been unable to leave her children. The Countess Haig also comes to speak about her book, “The Man I Knew,” all profits from the sale of * which are for the benefit of ex-service-men, their widows and children in each area where they live and where the book is distributed. The Countess Haig is looking for- * ward to her brief stay in New Zealand with great interest, and with particular interest to meeting Sir Ciutha Mackenzie again, of whom she saw much when he was at St. Dunstan’s.