Auckland Star

And anyway, she goes up there and the shopkeeper says, oh, look, this is your mother.

And there was the face of her mother in the front page of the then Auckland Star.

Ah.

And so they gave it to her to bring back with the milk.

And what that means is she wasn't having a delightful, live-in, freshers' experience, an undergraduate experience, it means she was working alongside trying to get a degree as well.

She became a journalist for the Auckland Star, and through the power of her journalism and writing, got a job in the early 1940s with the San Francisco Examiner.

But Pearl Harbor got in the way when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and America came into the war in the early 40s.

In America, there was a huge clampdown on people arriving into the country, particularly from the other side of the Pacific.