MARRIAGE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 409, 16 April 1937, Page 3

MARRIAGE.

THE ONLY CAREER. Lady Wakehurst’s Opinion. With her 15-year-old daughter, the Hon. Henrietta. Loder, contemplating a career at Oxford or Cambridge, Lady Wakehurst, wife of the new Governor of New South Wales (Lord Wakehursf.) does not disapprove of careers for women, but she says einphatipally, “marriage is- the only career.’’ "‘I do not think that women can combine successfully marriage and a career,’’ she added. “I do know some Women who have managed both, bt(; they are rare.” Lady Wakeburst, who has recently arrived in Sydney wi,th her husband and three tons, will be extremely popular in New South Wales, says a-n Australian paper. She has great personal charm, and a sense of humour which will win her many friends. She is tall and slim, with very dark brown 'twinkling eyes and soj.ly waving brown hair, which is dressed in a loose knot at the back of her head. She sketched 11 r life in one sentence: l “I grew up during the last years of the war, then I 'raise out,’ and I married; then w’e travelled, and then I had my babies, and there you are,” she said. She is devoted to her four chilIren. Her daughter, the Hon. Henrietta Loder, will come to Sydney in September; her spilt, the Hon. Christopher Loder, |he Hon. David Loder and the Hon. Robert Loder, who will be three this month arrived with her. Lady Wakehurst has promised to help the girl guides in New South Wales, and the Countrywomen's Association will also share in her interests. “I tremble to think of .'the hundreds of. letters I have- already received from various organisations," she said. Asked about recreation, Lady Wakehurst said that she liked a game of golf or tennis and “adored sailing” —an interest vtiich she shares wiih her husband and sons. “I cannot live without music, but I do nflt think you could call me musical,” she eaid, “and I am nett a bridge player.” Lady Wakehurat saw the lights of Sydney at 5 o’clock in the morning, ‘though I did not get, up then,” she said with a smile. By 1 o’clock she <had been so busy with ithe official reception that she had little time to tee her new , home, but the warmth of -her welcome touched her deeply. I had heard that v.'e might drive through silent streets,” she said. ‘But instead the warmth of the ’.eople was quite overwhelming. Someone even (threw a buneh of flowers to me, and although it did not reach me and made one of the horses shy, I appreciated the friendly gesture very much.”