SOCIAL SERVICE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25289, 15 September 1947, Page 2

SOCIAL SERVICE

DIRECTOR VISITING NEW ZEALAND An authority on social service work, Miss Lyra Taylor, arrived in Auckland by flying-boat from Sydney on Saturday on her way to Wellington to visit her mother, Mrs M. Taylor, of Kelburn. Although a New Zealander. Miss Taylor, who is Director of Social Work and Research in the Commonwealth Department of Social Services, Australia, has spent the greater part of her adult life abroad. She took her LL.B, at Victoria College, Wellington, after which she went .to the Johns Hopkins University, where she took her M.A. in social economics. Miss Taylor is a vice-president of the Australian Association of Social Workers, an organisation which sponsored the first Australian Conference of Social Work just held in Sydney. She went to Australia in 1945 at the request of the Commonwealth Department. of Social Services to form a bureau of social research within that department, arid it is this organisation of which she is now director. Before going to Australia Miss Taylor was engaged in social service work in the United States and Canada for many years. She last visited New Zealand in January, 1946.