AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 15, 19 January 1931, Page 11

AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Mrs. William K. Vantlevbilt's Christ- • mas present to the. City of New York I \va- food ani coffee for 1(5,50C hungry' unfortunates standing in long , lines in the heart of the white light district to get their turn at the two coffee wagons charity had stationed there. * * k * Miss L. Large, of Napier, is in Lon- ; don. staying ;it Teddington. She has just returned from a tour of the Con- ! tinent, where she attended a conference of rural women's associations at Vienna, i where, she was elected a member of the j liaison committee. * * * r Women of Poland are making a great effort to get women on Court juries. At present jury Courts exist only in that part of Poland which was iii Austria before the war, but there is a bill pending which should introduce the jury system. nil over the country. This bill, however, would exclude women from service. *** # ■ How does an American woman, deliberately or ■ otherwise, gain admittance to Britain's "Who's Who?" asks ail American paper. • "Americans listed arc those whose fame has spread to England," says one of the publishers who was consulted. The names of Jane Adams and Mary Garden appear on the list. Douglas Fairbanks is in, but it makes no mention of Mary Pickford.