WOMEN IN INDUSTRY AN PUBLIC LIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 156, 1 July 1916, Page 17

WOMEN IN INDUSTRY AN PUBLIC LIFE.

Dr. Alice Morelan/3, of Christehnjch. was a passenger by the Eemuera for EngLun}, she will offer her services to the Medical Board. Hies T>. Hurathouse has been anpointed,an assistant in the infant department of the Normal school, "Kelburn, Wellington. Mia Horsthouee is at present in London, undergoing a course of training, largely in connection There is an excellent organisation known as the Sydney University Women's Settlement. At its annual meeting recently the report toached on the work of mothers' clubs, girls' clubs, and work for the abikiren in the neighbourhood of the university. There i 3 a great need for women's hoetek in various centres in England Sheffield, Dumbarton. Didcot, Coventry everywhere where War Office work ia being done. Majiy "women were glad enough to rush off to work for soldiers, out find the idea of working for other girls and women rather dull. Mme. Sa/ah Bernhardt has sent a striking message to the British business women, which appears in '"The Business Girls' Handbook," published by Pitman'.s. "Nothing have I admired more in tho England of my heart," says lime. Bernhardt, "than the way in which you, her daughters, have risen to the high necessities of the hour. I salute you, the women workers of England, an among the saviours of your (Sentry. Had you not thrown yourselves into the breach, her commerce, if not her arms, would bave been mortally wounded."'