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Rotorua Morning Post, 1 March 1933, Page 6

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AN ENGLISH TITLED LADY GIVES "IMPRESSIONS" OF ROTORUA An English titled la-dy who was recently in Rotorua and whose adventures into authorship recently aroosed soxxxe pointed criticism in England in regard to her references to the Govex*nox* of New South V/ales (Sir Philip Gaime), has drawn fire from a correspondent of the Wellington Evening Post who deals with some of her references to New Zealand in the following pex*tinent paragraph: "An English titled lady who visited the Dominion for the first time in 1932 has published her account of the beaxxties of our land in hook foirm at 12s 6d. She descx*ibes "Rotarua," Lake "Rotaiti," "Whakarewakewa," "Waikako River," "Arongaroxiga," Mayor "Hyslop," the Maori M.P. "Ngahata Nghata," the principal morning paper "Wellington Courier," axxd the "xxxilk-growers" of New Zealand. But the peak of her1 reminisceixces coxnes on pag'e 205 when she descrdbes "dinner at Governmexxt House," and adds, "but I regretted that I was allowed 1 such a short talk with Sir Joseph Ward." When oxxe considers that this dinner took p'lace in 1932, and Sir Joseph died in July, 1930, our lady was lucky to be allowed even a short talk."