A WOMAN STATIONMASTER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 328, 15 October 1908, Page 3

A WOMAN STATIONMASTER.

iji' almost every phase of industrial',)iipn women* are .to -be found competing iritH^thbja,t?lniorsex,\Whippiu|zhairi, tho pic- . little Isle of Wight'village, is prob-. in having' a womiin stationmaster.'; .. For 20. years; this station has . been in th?-Tehtire charge •of Mrs. Merwood, in railway company have the utmost and,. ivho' has proved her devo-.tiqn-rfo'.the duties of her position.' The post /has'fceeri'no sjh'ecure. Situated between Itydo ' arid CoVes,'the daily.'traffic.is.'not inconsider&bfe,:wliilo'the close proximity of the station toJOSborrie House, where the lato Queen Victo"na;spent so much of her life, added, to its importance. Many, times' Mrs. Merwood has beeir honoured with Royal recognition. The lato Prince Henry of Battenborg was, niucb interested in her,' and from time to' time the staition-mistress' has come before the notice of other I'ioyal residents. King Edward's gift to tho nation of Osborne House' as a training college for naval cadets has tended still further r to increase tho usefulness of Whippingham. Sirs. Merwood is a station staff in "herself as for every department, excepting the removal of luggage, she is personally responsible. Pictures of the lady show a robust-looking country-woman, whose insigyiia of office seems to bo a lingo white cooking apron, which gives her an air of domesticity even when flag-signalling for 1 Bhuriting.