FORMER NEW ZEALANDER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1938, Page 5

FORMER NEW ZEALANDER

VISIT FROM SOUTH AFRICA. NO FEARS THERE OF NAZI AGGRESSION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October 11.’ “I had forgotten what the country here looked like,” said Mr H. LeslieMelville, a Rhodesian mining engineer who has retired. He arrived at Auckland by the Dutch steamer Tasman. His father was general manager of the Union Bank of Australasia, Wellington, from 1885 to 1891, and the son was educated at Wellington and at Wanganui College before leaving for England with his parents in 1891. After completing his education in England, Mr Leslie-Melville went to South Africa with his parents. There is little anxiety in South Africa over any threat to the colonies from Nazi aggression, he said. The only thought of possible trouble was the fact that with the conquest of Abyssinia the Italians were now within 36 flying hours of Johannesburg, but with the relations that existed between Britain and Italy there was little likelihood of trouble on that score. The Union Was rapidly building an air base and though it had no navy it had a fine territorial army. There was no dissatisfaction airiong the sections of the South African peoples. Everybody was satisfied and prosperous. Mr Leslie-Melville and his wife will visit Wellington.