NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 205, 27 August 1912, Page 7

NOTES FOR WOMEN.

(From Our Lady Correspondent.) LONDON, June 21. WOMEN* FLYERS. It has been arranged to hold the Ladies' First AviaLion Meeting at the London Aerodrome, Hendon, on (Saturday, July 0. This interesting meeting will be under the patronage of the Women's Aerial League, anil the principal events will .be a race in which women pilots will compete, and a crosscountry flight by men pilots who will -.•airy lady passengers. A special prize will by offered for the lady pilot who will first ii— a lady j-assengcr twice round the acr-xlromc without alighting. To mark this historic occasion, the Women's Aerial league is presenting a special trophy, while individual mom-bens arc giving cash -prizes, caps and <tro-p_ also. The Quec.-i of Sweden, it is interesting to note, made _n ascent in an airship a few days ago, in the neighbourhood of Baden-Baden. IX Mrxicii No woman, whatev-cr her qualifications, may become a principal or superintendent of what arc known as continuation schools, though bands of teachers arc now- working hard -to get this ban removed. ~ , i. 4.000,000 WOMEN! Under the Health Insurance part of the much-discussed Insuranec Act, something like four million women will be contributors and beneficiaries. WOMEN FASHION .-RTISTS. So enormously overcrowded has the once lucrative women's profession of fashion plate drawing ibecome of late years that the London County Council, which held classes for the teaching of this .branch of drawing, have decided to start no more. BADLY-PAID NEEDLEWOMEN. As a result of a recent -agitation on the part of the badly-paid home needleworkers of Zurich for a betterment of the conditions of labour, the Board of Trade has appointed a confere-nce of 12 employe- and employees to investigate complaints. One of the chief concessions asked by the women is that employers should supply needles, cotton and pins. WOMAN I__W"-ER_* PLANS. In the "Woman L_.-"|-yeTs' Journal"— how advanced that sounds in England! — there appeared, some little time ago, a list of proposed amonomenta to New York hvws that women plead call for immediate attention. One gives a mother equal rights with the father in the property of the children. One makes her a joint guardian as he is now sole guardian of the children; equal fires in the property, revoking the will made under a subsequent marriage, giving the won— the right to any money she may earn; and other interesting amendments are mentioned. In view of the active part women lawyers have 'been able to take in the life of tiho countries where they are —flowed full scope for their talents and experience, it must be particularly gal-Ting for Miss Frances NetUefoW, who, this week, has obtained Honours in Law at Cambridge, 'being placed 'between 'the first and second man in Part 1, or Miss Maud Ingram, who has cfctained a third class, to realise that they are not eligible to make practical use of their bono_i*s. It iB seven yea since any ladies obtained honours in law.