WOMEN AND INVENTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 148, 25 June 1931, Page 13

WOMEN AND INVENTION.

How few women ever invent anything in New Zealand, yet Americans seem to do it as they don their hats; it's so easy to them. When the housewife places her eggs in the carrier which safely holds them upright and free from breakage, how few know that they owe this useful and extremely valuable bit of information on how to stack eggs to a young girl on an American farm who was troubled by breakages and set herself to remedy them. But then, if you invent anything in America the country looks on you as an asset; in New Zealand we look on any women with a few ideas as a public nuisance, and suppress her accordingly. No woman who cannot raise enough money to prevent her wanting to invent is of .use to us, for unless she has it she will not be able to pay the fees. Thus firmly do we keep her out. In England, even when the American has married into the aristocracy, she still uses her brains, and now Mrs. Gilbert Hamilton, the charming wife of Cplonel Gilbert Hamilton, who is the only son of Lord Claud Hamilton, has invented an electric iron which pleats as it goes along. She also has another invention up her sleeve, not completed, according to an English paper, which she still keeps a secret.