Elsie K. Morton's Distinction

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 36, 17 February 1939, Page 6

Elsie K. Morton's Distinction

ALTHOUGH she is best known ‘for her essays and her two books, "Along the Road" and "Joy of the Road," Miss Elsie K. Morton is first and foremost a newspaperwoman. Perhaps it would be more correct to say newspaperman, for, while she is a staunch feminist, she enjoyed the distinction of being the only woman reporter on a New Zealand metropolitan daily newspaper to achieve senior rank, and her work included all the assignments which regularly fall to the lot of the average newspaper reporter. She covered the New Zealand visit of the present King and Queen, and she has visited nearly every corner of New Zealand at one time or another, though she confesses that she has never been to Tauranga. Sounds funny, but she just hasn’t been able to get round that way. "Along the Road," by the way, ran to | five editions, which makes it a best-seller, according to New Zealand standards.