COUNCIL FOR EQUAL PAY

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28255, 17 April 1957, Page 2

COUNCIL FOR EQUAL PAY

Organisation 9 s Objectives (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 16. A council for equal pay and opportunity has been established with the object of “bringing about as soon as possible the full implementation of the principles of equal pay for equal work (or the rate for the job) and equal opportunity for women in all spheres of employment in New Zealand.” Membership of the council is open to all organisations subscribing to its objects. The following officers have been elected: chairman, Miss Challis Hooper (Y.W.C.A.); secretary. Miss Margaret Brand (Public Service Association); and treasurer, Mrs Vera May (Federation of Business and Professional Women). A vice-chairman is still to be elected.

The council has set up a subcommittee to present a report to a meeting on May lfr on topics for study.

DEATH OF GERMAN PRINCESS Daughter-In-Law Of Last Kaiser (Rec. 10 p.m.) LYONS, April 15. Princess Alexandra Glucksburg of Schleswig-Holstein, a daughter-in-law of the last Kaiser of Germany, collapsed and died in a Lyons hotel last night. She was 70. In 1908 she married Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, the fourth son of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. The marriage was dissolved in 1920. Her marriage in 1922 to Mr Arnold Rumann, a retired German naval officer, was also dissolved in 1933. After World War II the Princess lived in a caravan near Wiesbaden, West Germany, where she earned a living as a portrait and landscape painter. Royal Lead In Jewellery The Queen carefully selects the jewels she wears on a State visit, and during her stay in Portugal inadvertently set a fashion, writes Victoria Chappelle from London. Both by day and by night she wore some priceless' pieces, many of them rich in historical associations. But for her visit to the Monastery of Jeronimos, she wore a rose pink hat with a grey coat, on the lapel of which she had pinned a large flower brooch in which was set the rare rose pink diamond which was one of her wedding gifts. The result is that the newest vogue is for' a woman to match the colour of her jewels with her millinery. Aquamarines are now in fashion, because Queen Elizabeth often wears a beautiful necklace and ear-rings of fine large aquamarines and diamonds—a gift, on the occasion of her Coronation, from the President of Brazil. Some years ago the Queen practically launched the fashion for pendant ear-rings for the evening by wearing some magnificent pearl drop ear-rings.