AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 25, 31 January 1928, Page 11

AT HOME AND ABROAD.

One of the last masculine strongholds in London has fallen to a womaiT. It ■was Smithfield Market, where a woman meat carrier appeared for the first time in history this week. In a few hours she had disposed of tons of meat. She was Mrs. A. E. Tidd, who is going to carry on the work of her late husband. She bustled along taking orders in a capacious notebook and superintending nj lorries ' , a PP arentl y oblivious of the Mild sensation she was causing. A petite, fair-haired woman, Mrs. Tidd wore a red-peaked cap, long white coat, short skirt, and big black Russian boots. A leather money satchel was slun" across her shoulders. "I have never been associated with the business before," she said,""but I am certain that I shall succeed. I don't feel at all strange being the only woman in the market. I just think that I am here to get on with the job. I feel quite at home." • • • •

This year the annual conference of the British National Council of Women is to take place at Bournemouth, stated Time and Tide." The programme is interesting, both in respect to the resolutions down for discussion and to the public meetings arranged in connection with the conference. Naturally the lirst resolution, which is down for re-affirma-tion without discussion, is that demanding that the Franchise Bill giving votes to ■women on the same terms as men and from the age of 21, shall be introduced at the very beginning of next session. An interesting resolution which l lias received considerable notice in various sections of the Press is that which Lady Fiances Balfour is to propose on behalf of the Hull branch: "That the National Council of Women of Great Britain agrees to concentrate upon one great question of national reform each year and to make a united effort all over! country. to secure its accomplish, meny ~