WRITTEN IN TAUPO

Taupo Times, Volume IV, Issue 161, 25 February 1955, Page 8

WRITTEN IN TAUPO

March Wingate's New Novel Mrs W. L. Stapleton, who has spent some months at her cottage in Taupo View Road. received advice from London recently that her second novel, "The Tall Girl," had been accepted for publication by Messrs Herbert Jenkins. Mrs Stapleton, who writes under the pen name of March Wingate, was formcrly Marjorie Wingate. She is the daughter of Mrs C. C. Wingate. Palmerston North, and the late Mr J. E. Wingate. "The Tall Girl" is a story of life in j Malaya during the post-war yea.rs of | Commimist disturbance. and has been written in its entirety in Taupo, prob•ably the first novel to be so written. Mrs Stapleton left Taupo on Wednesday, February 16 and was to fiy to 1 / Sydney, and there join the "Nieuw Holland" for Singapore, en route to rejoin her husband at Ipoh, Malaya. Mr Stapleton returned to Malaya in December after a furlough in Taupo. Mrs Stapleton's first novel is bcing published by Herbert Jenkins. and is now expected to be on sale in New i Zealand in June. Titled "Red East". I it is a story of New Zealand life, | tracing the lives of two girls living | on sheep stations, and has been described as sincere and moving. « Mrs Stapleton's son Richard will remain at boarding-school in New Zealand, but her daughter Fern, who has | been attendfng the Taupo Sehool, is i returning to Malaya. with her | • mother.