Shaw's Progress: How He Laid Siege to New Zealand From 15 March to 15 April 1934

Abstract

On 15 March 1934 the 78-year-old Bernard Shaw and his wife Charlotte spent a month in New Zealand, travelling extensively in the North Island and making an expedition to Picton, Blenheim, Kaikoura and Christchurch. where he attended his only civic reception. "The Shaw's procession throughout New Zealand resembled a royal welcome' writes Isidor Saslav, from whose seminar on that month the following illustrations and commentaries are taken. Shaw generously gave many press conferences, answered innumerable queries, some verbal, some written, and made a historic uncensored, broadcast.