WOMEN IN INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC LIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 174, 22 July 1916, Page 17

WOMEN IN INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC LIFE.

Nurse Tozer obtained 100 peT cent marks in the recent examination in invalid cookery. She is, says our Napier correspondent, the first to gain this distinction during the last sis years. Miss Anne ilorgan, the daughter of Pierpont Morgan, is going to do some war work, and with her are three American society girls who have given up the cummer's pleasures to go and become nurses at the American ambulance, Paris. Nurse Coneys, who lias been mentioned i in Sir Douglas Haig's latest dispatches, j left New Zealand about fh'P years agu for England, and joined the Red Cross there. Her parents live at Portobello I (Dunedinl. Nurse Coneys received her training at the Duncdin Hospital. Miss Kathleen Oshorne. who lias been nursing the wounded in Egypt for the last twelve months, has left on her return journey to Sydney. Miss Osborno was one of tlie voluntary aids who were trained at St. Vincent's Hospital, and since then she has been on the nursing staff at Heliopolis. and some months ago was appointed theatre nurse at the Sports Club. Cairo, which has been converted into a military hospital. Mie i.< the daughter of Mr George Osborne. of Sydney, and sister of Lieutenant D'Arcy Osborne. and of Mr Stew-art Osborne, Red Cross Commissioner in France. "Annie S. Swan " i Mrs. Hurnett Smith) innd-e an appeal at tlve annual meeting of the Early Closing Association for more consideration on the part of women shoppers. She Tx-gged them to remember that their sisters who were engaged in the distribution of the necessaries of life were women like themselves, often tired, often weary, longing for the tiue when it was possible to I take a little rest. Shopping should be I done at as early an hour as possibk?.

There have been remarkable scenes in Glasgow. Thousands of women engaged in a patriotic crusade in favour of prohibition during the war formed a procession, which was the largest seen in Scotland for many years, 30,000 parading. Titled women and others prominent in social and religious circles took part in it. With many bands and banners it paraded the principaJ streets. At Glasgow Green addressee were delivered and prohibition resolutions were adopted against the sale of alcohol during the war and for six months afterwards. The English Y.W.C.A. has courageously tackled a very serious problem with its hostel scheme. Most of the fae- ! tory towns had their full population lnng before the war started; then the Governojcnt. took ov<*r n ntimber ol works under the beading of " control " factories, and as often as not an addition of 10.000 or more workers were drafted into the town in order to complete the contracts, with little or no chance <>! adequate accommodation. The hostel scheme is to supply in part this deficiency, while the canteens will enable the girls to obtain proper food and rest and recreation. Besides the groat arid ■mportant question of the supply ot munitions there is the equally great ami important question of the health of the nation to be considered. Tlie?e frirte jtind women are working abnormal hours, and at abnormal tasks, with no thought of what eoct it may all have on their .future health, and consequently on the future health of the nation.