Aunt Daisy Leaves Soon for U.S.A.

New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 351, 15 March 1946, Page 22

Aunt Daisy Leaves Soon for U.S.A.

\V HEN Aunt Daisy meade her goodwill visit to America in 1944 (the photograph above was taken then), she was asked to undertake a lecture tour covering a representative cross-section of the United States, in order to tell the "ordinary people" more fully about our way of life in New Zealand. At that time, however, it was not possible for Aunt Daisy to extend her leave. But now the problem of civilian travel in the States is easing a little, and Barbara is back from war service overseas and ready to deputise for her mother as she has done on past occasions. So Aunt Daisy will shortly make another trip to the U.S.A. She is planning to be absent for approximately six months. Arrangements are being made for her to lecture at women’s clubs and organisations right through the States, as well as at some high schools and colleges; and to observe the variations in the "way of life’ in different parts of America. She is taking with her some representative films and pictures of New Zealand with which to illustrate her talks; and she plans to complete her work by telling New Zealanders, on her return, about the lives of women in the States as she has seen them-their "housekeeping, their way of employing

leisure, and so on. Aunt Daisy will work mainly through the Association of Women Directors of the National Association of Broadcasters, of which she was made the first international member. This will give her unique opportunities of making close contact with women in all parts of America; and it is certain that among her most interested listeners will be New Zealand war-brides now in the States, many of whom will have been familiar with Aunt Daisy’s cheerful "Good Morning, Everybody" almost since they were children. 2 Barbara, who will deputise for Aunt Daisy, is seen above at the microphone of the FBS in Cairo. She entered the Air Force as a V.A.D. oft March 22, 1943, was subsequently transferred to the Army, and went overseas in December, 1943, on the hospital ship Oranje, on which she served until the end of May, 1945, when she was sent to No. 5 General Hospital, Helwan, to recuperate after pneumonia. She remained at Helwan on duty until her return to New Zealand by the Dominion Monarch on January 23, this year. Barbara was one of the New Zealanders representing the Medical Division at the El Alamein Memorial Service on November 9, 1945,