U.N. POSITION
SYDNEY WOMAN APPOINTED (Rec. 7 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 19. Mrs Mary Tenison Woods, of Sydney. has been appointed chief of the Status of Wopien Section of the Human Rights Division of the United Nations, succeeding Madame Menin, of India. She has accepted the appointment for a minimum of 12 months. Mrs Woods was the first woman graduate in law from the University of Adelaide, the first woman called to the Bar in South Australia, and the first woman in the British Empire to be made a notary public. For some time she has been legal editor and author for a firm of law book publishers. Most of her early work was in South Australia, but since she and her son made their home in Sydney she has achieved her greatest success in child welfare work.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26117, 20 May 1950, Page 7
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