AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1930, Page 14

AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Miss Margaret Wilson, at the ago of eleven, is being taken from the boardfng school at Aekworth, Yorkshire, to become Mayoress of Osett, near Wakefield, during the term of oflice of her father, Alderman G. F. Wilson, states an English exchange. Miss Wilson was born during the time her mother was Mayoress, and she will wear the chain used by her mother. Both her grandmothers have also been Mayoresses of the town.

Miss N. Lloyd, the well-known Sydney tennis player, is entering for. the New Zealand championship tournament to be played at Miramar. She will be playing in the doubles with Mrs. Sturman. Miss Lloyd won the New Zealand championship doubles with Miss Lance in 1922. and again in 1926 with Miss J. Watson. Mrs. Sturman, better known in tennis circles as Miss Nancy Curtis, won the national singles in 1920 and 1921, the women's doubles with Mrs. Melody in 1921j the mixed with Dr. Allison in 1920, and With Mr. G. Ollivier in 1921. Mrs. Sturman and Miss Lloyd are both reported to be playing very well this season.

Women have not taken a very conspicuous part in the work of friendly societies in England in the past. It is interesting to learn, therefore, that for the first time a woman, Miss G. Abbott, of Sheffield, is standing for the executive committee of the Sheffield Council of the Order of Foresters. As women become more independent and as their salaries gradually approximate more closely to those of men, they are certain to take a more active , share in , the friendly society movement in the future.

A party of over one hundred senior State school girls last month had a tour of Western Australia, in just the same way aa boys have been touring during the past ten or fifteen years. They were drawn from the principal schools of Perth and Fremantle, and went off in the ■charge of eight teachers. They had a train to themselves, and noisy and hilarious was the scene of. their departure. For most of them it was the prst tong journey of their lives. A Visit was paid to the Karri timber centres, the group settlements, and the butter factories. The girls also visited the irrigation centres around Harvey, where they were shown the system of paddock flooding'and the regulation of water supplies. The tour cost only £2 2/ a head, including all forms of transport, meals and sleeping accommodation. This was made- possible by the huge concessions granted by the Railway Department, as well ,as by the hospitality of the people of the districts through which they travelled. The experiment is likely to be repeated next year.