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SHE EXPERIENCED THE "BLITZ"

Wellington $ Bachelor Girl "

HEN Kathleen O’Brien, the Wellington girl who is conducting Station 2ZB’s "Bachelor Girl" session every Saturday morning, reads the news of the latest air raids on London, she has a special sympathy for the people of London in their terrible trial. For Miss O’Brien was in London when the JDlitz started last September, and she had three months of it. She was living in a block of flats near Paddington Station, and she was lucky in having a deep shelter in the basement to go to when the sirens sounded. She saw much of the destruction caused by the German bombers, but like every other witness of the bombings, she declares that the average Londoner came through dauntless, "They have their toes in, and they’ll never be shifted in a hundred years," she says. The dislocation of transport which has meant uncomplaining trudges of three and four miles morning and evening for many London workers, has also produced pleasant examples of democratic brotherliness among rich and poor. No one with a motor-car ever travels by himself; there is always some plodding pedestrian to pick up and take to work. Miss O’Brien, who formerly conducted a school of dancing in Wellington and produced several stage shows for Wellington theatres, left for England six years ago. She worked in big L.M.S. hotels, and before the outbreak of war, was social hostess at Gleneagles, a resort hotel in the Scottish Highlands. When

war came, Gleneagles was taken dver by the Government as a hospital. Kathleen O’Brien is well qualified to give advice to bachelor girls on the many problems associated with rooming in a big city, and making the most ‘of a moderate income. She has roomed by herself, catered for herself, and in a word, knows exactly how the bachelor girl can be helped. She claims that she personally tests out every housekeeping dressmaking and interior decorating su she gives over the air.

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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 96, 24 April 1941, Page 48

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SHE EXPERIENCED THE "BLITZ" New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 96, 24 April 1941, Page 48

SHE EXPERIENCED THE "BLITZ" New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 96, 24 April 1941, Page 48

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