OVERSEAS NOTES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 65, 10 December 1930, Page 5

OVERSEAS NOTES

' Miss Mary Symonds, who probably knows more about the history of needlework than anyone else in the world, has just celebrated her twenty-fifth year as a student-of embroidery. In addition to having repaired many valuable pieces of tapestry for various royal palaces, Miss Symonds has done much personal work for the Queen. She has also been responsible for the preservation of nearly all the more important pieces of needlework left to the world. The important work of excavating the site of the Roman city of Verulain is being carried out by a woman, Mrs. Wheeler, the wife of Dr. Mortimer Wheeler, keeper and secretary of the London Museum. Mrs Wheeler is the chief administrative officer of a party, which includes her husband, Dr. Davies Price, a number of voluntary workers and about twenty labourers, who have already made a number of important discoveries. Besides organising the work and instructing the diggers, Mrs. Whceier is responsible for sorting and marking, the pottery and other relics are being found. " One of the measures to be submitted to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in the extraordinary session that has just been called is for the extension of the Parliamentary franchise to women (who already have the municipal vote), and to establish universal suffrage in place of the present indirect electoral system.