WOMEN IN INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC LIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 237, 4 October 1916, Page 8

WOMEN IN INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC LIFE.

The Town Hall, Wellington, is a.buW place at present, says the "Xew Zealand Times:" ' Qnite'fifty "workers are engaged in packing Christmas.gifts for the'soldiers at the front." "Already over 2,000 parcels are packed. / .*

! Miss Hilda Bice, of Xapier, who tw«r years ago;ieft for East bengal (on T>ehalf jot the Kew-Zealand Baptist Missionary Society)i ■ has - 'successfully" passed •er .lsnsuage examination at the Divinity College. '

Miss Jean.""Andrews, general secretary of the Dunedin Y.W.C.A., and Mrs. H. Wilson, a member of -the Danedin Board, of Directors, have left to attend the fourthtriennial convention : of the .Young Women's Christian Association, .to bs held in Sydney this -week.

Miss Sybil Lee, one of the Church of England-Maori-Mission workers, is etill in England. She went Home on. furlough for rest, but when tie war brok> out «he asked permission to remain in order that she might minister to the Maori sick and wounded in Endand. This she i≤ etill doing.

Dr. Mary Blair, of Wellington, 13 stilV cut in Corsica in charge of the institution for Serbian refugees, but it is not unlikely that she wffl be returning for a time to Salonika. Dr. Blair went 4uti to the Mediterranean in July, 1915, in charge of a hospital unit, under the auspicee of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for "Foreign Service.

Among the exhibits at the Women's Work sn. Wartime Exhibition, held in Sydney, -were perfumes. made from -Australian flowers and oik; the covering of perfume bottles with wicker work; the making of glass for optical lenses; tie making of hand-bags, and ti>e manufa--ture of silverware and paints from-ma-tenals found in Australia.