BRITISH PHILOSOPHY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 249, 18 September 1940, Page 8

BRITISH PHILOSOPHY.

MEETING WAR CONDITIONS

Mrs A. Hamilton, who recently arrived in New Zealand from Glasgow, and plans to make her home in this country tor the duration of the war, is a former resident of this district, her husband having been a herd tester lor the Manawatu area. He is now a member of the Auxiliary Eire Servict in Britain. Mrs Hamilton told an “Evening Standard” representative to-day that there had been one or two air raids where she lived before she left. They had been a trial, and people had lived in an atmosphere of uncertainty, with new restrictions coming out every day. These, liuwever, were accepted cheerfully as everyone realised that they were unavoidable and that life must he carried on as normally as possible. Mrs Hamilton counted herself as fortunate in being able to come to New Zealand with her children. Many people could not leave the Homeland, and probably would not do so evon ir they could. Sho herself would have preferred to have remained in Scotland, but felt it wrong to subject her children unnecessarily to the strain ot life there as they were at an impressionable age—too old to adapt themselves unconsciously to the new conditions, and too young to take up the adult viewpoint. The journey out had been uneventful and the newcomers had received a warm welcome in New Zealand and kind and friendly treatment everywhere. , , . . . ‘ Mrs Hamilton, who has been visiting Mrs J- A. Grant, of North Street, leaves for Auckland to-night.