A DELIGHTFUL NEW ZEALANDER AT HOME
Mrs. Staples Browne It is announced in the “British Australian and New Zealander” that Mrs. Staples Browne is now a member of the Home Students’ Society of Oxford University. It is remarked: —“She is taking anthropology —which includes several other ‘ologies’—as her special course, and brings to it much knowledge that the ordinary student does not possess. It is not every woman who woulcj. give herself up to such a strenuous life, but Mrs. Staples Browne has a personality which is so vividly alive that hard work has no*terrors for her. In Oxford she is one of the most popular people in a place where popularity is not given too easily, and is always a. welcome guest. So many English people do not seem to be Quite alive —Mrs. Staples Brown is, and bubbles over with fun and the zest of life. In New Zealand, whre she was the delightful and much-sought-after Maggie Papakura, her kinsfolk, the Maoris, love her.
The book on which she is now engaged. and in which the course of anthropology which she is now taking will be very helpful, is to be a history of the Maori race. She is learned in their ancient customs, and will write of them with real sympathy and understanding. The beautiful war memorial, a pieta, in Oddington Church, near Oxford, ’ would never have been there and determination that the brave Maori had it not been for her ceaseless trouble warriors who gave their lives to the Empire should not remain without their fitting monument. Lately, I went into Oddington Church. It is very old, and the rector has beautified it as only an artist could. The church was smothered in spring flowers in the month of May, and the pieta, representing the Mother of Christ bending over our Lord, stood at one end of the chancel. A shaft of sunlight illuminated the exquisitely modelled faces, and glinted on the old Maori figures carved in wood hundreds of years old which composed the pedestal. The sunlight welded into one.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 78, 23 June 1927, Page 5
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