WOMEN IN INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC LIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 180, 29 July 1916, Page 17

WOMEN IN INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC LIFE.

. » Miss Fanny Paris, daughter of the late g Dr. John Paris, one of Queen Victoria's a physicians, has died at Yarmouth, 1.W., a aged 101. Born the year before Water- t 100, she once sat next to the Emperor d Napoleon 111. at dinner, and recalled t that he ate the skins of grapes, and t cracked nuts for her. She knew Byron, d Tom Moore, and the Smiths of "Re- a jectcd Addresses" fame, and she saw r. Count d'Orsay, the famous dandy, riding r in Rotten Row. a Women cab-drivers have been introduced to the streets of Milan, but only the wives of drivers called for military i service have been accepted for the work, i They wear the silk hat and coachman's i cape that form the uniform of Milanese ' cab-drivers, so that at night they cannot * be distinguished from the male drivers. Mrs. Costello, wife of Sergeant Cos- j tello, Calcutta Port police, has been appointed by the Commissioner of Police ' an official police searcher, a newlycreated post. On one ship she found ten ' pounds of opium on a Chinese girl, and made her over to the police for trial. A Suffolk Herb Growing Association • I has been started under the presidency of ~the Hon. Rosamund Hanbury. Miss 1 Alice Stanford said that it was not until last year that it was discovered how serious was the shortage of drugs, due to the fact that herb growing had long . been practically a monopoly of Central Europe and the Balkans. Never again must England allow herself to become dependent for her drugs on foreign countries, which might become her enemies. I "As to the war employment of women," says a London employer, "my estimate is that there are still three million energetic, brainy, educated women waiting for the magnetic call and the big lead." Three million workless women. What a comment on the economic world as at present organised. In future the work of dispensing in military hospitals is to be done almost exclusively by women holding either the Pharmaceutical Society's diploma or the assistant's certificate of the Apothecaries' Society. Since August last year women dispensers have been employed in military hospitals, but their employment is "to become more general, and they arc even to take the place of male dispensers who are over military age. j At Newcastle recently, farm servants were offered higher wages, and girls, were hired at from £0 to £12 per halfvear. women from £12 to £ 15, and men from £l(i to £20. Mrs. W. D. Scott, of Melbourne, had her ninety-first birthday recently. Her work as a flower-painter is well known, and she still indulges her hobby. Miss Christina Smith, who for some years was in charge of .the massage department at Rotorua, is now at the New Zealand Military Hospital at Brockenhurst. in Hampshire. Dr. Irene Woodhouse, M.B. Ch.B., of Punc.lin. has been appointed assistant medical officer to the Southland Hospital. it Dr. Ada Patterson, of Otago. is taking it up a Government appointment with red "ard to health in schools. Her predcic cessor. Dr. Elizabeth Gunn, has been ie transferred fo military duties, and is " now in c-I>- --c of a soldiers' hospital at the I'pncr ..att.