WOMEN IN INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC LIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 36, 10 February 1917, Page 16

WOMEN IN INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC LIFE.

Sister Patrick, who ha* been nursing j at Trentbam since her return on the hoe pital ahip Marama, haa been granted three months' leave of absence to undertake the duties of matron-in-chargu at Karitana Hospital, Dunodin, for three months during the absence of Miss Morgan, the matron. Miss Gertrude Owen, one of the secretaries of the Christchurcb Y.W.C.A., is taking a well-earned holiday, after the recent hard work of the conference. Mine Owen ie camping at the Selwyn River. Afterwards she will accompany Mit» IL A. Clark, another of the secretaries, to Queenetown and the Southern Lakes. About 56 women teachers from Victorian State schools have been spending a fortnight of their holiday in Melbourne, going through a course of special training for positions ac junior cadet instructors, in order to release male teachers for active service. The teache.rw are mostly from country districts of Victoria, and their desire is to do something in the cause. For thus seeking to assist they have been commended by the Defence authorities. They have been drilling almost six hours each day, learning the rudiments of squad drill, physical training, and first aid. Dr. Violet, daughter of Mr. T. A. H. Field, M.P., was recently appointed Professor of Pathology at the Lady Hardinge Memorial College, Delhi, and went to London to take a special course in pathology before beginning her work at Delhi. While she wae working ac assist-ant-bacteriologist at the Lister Institute iher health broke down, necessitating some months' rest. She went to California and spent a couple of months in the mountains, coming on later to New Zealand. After a few months' rest Dr. Field will return to America for special work at one of the universities there before taking up her residence in India. The college stands in 49 acres of ground, with tennis courts, hockey ground, etc, ! and 11 .teres are taken up by the various buildings. All the members of the fftaff (seven profeseor3 at present) are women, and accommodation is provided for 100 women students. A party of French munition workers has been touring Great Britain to see what women are doing in munition works. In one Scottish factory they had midday dinner with the workers — Scotch broth, beef, turnips, and potatoes, apple tart, and coffee for 9d. They eaid they were going to tell the French Minister for Munitions about it, an they had no such facilities in their own factories. There is one trade (save the "Chronicle") that women for some myeterious reason fight ehy of—that ie bootmaking and repairing. There are plenty of women working in boot factories eewing uppers and other not unfeminine, kind of work, hut has a woman ever been known to make a boot from beginning to end, to sew or rivet on n new pair of sole*, or patch up an old pair of boots? And yet women do much harder work than bootmakina. The French women munition workers now touring the munition centres In Orrat Britain visited the French Embassy and then had lunch at the Mansion House. "Women in France and in En<rliind were working with all their might to help on the cause of the Allies."' Raid the Lord M'lyor. "They were working in thon»ann> of '■(ihm nndrr a load of sorrow and affliction, but their help wae invaluable."