A NEW CAREER

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 180, 28 April 1931, Page 4

A NEW CAREER

Women Real Estate Agents In these days of emancipation a girl on leaving school does not have to decide whether she will stay at home and do the flowers or become either a typist or a private secretary. She. has a wider field to choose from,- and one of. the things she may choose is the business of a land agent, or, as it is called in the United States of America, real estate agent. At present there are very few women who have taken up this work in New Zealand, and there ,is only one woman member —Miss Shaw, Wellington —of the New Zealand Real. Estate Institute. Another girl well known in Wellington who intends taking it up seriously on her own account is Miss Louise von Zedlitz, Lower Hutt. Talking to a representative of Ine Dominion” yesterday she said she thought it was an ideal job for a woman. had become interested in it by the fact that many of her friends from other parts of New Zealand had wanted houses and she in a friendly way had directed them to agents. , . “I think,” she continued, "that women understand best what women want, and I feel that when I start work and show a woman' buyer a house I will be able

to find her something that I myself would like and that contains labour-sav-ing things for the housewife.” As Miss von Zedlitzisays, the work is interesting, mostly out-of-doors, and healthy, and for a girl with the average amount of brains and tact is? very desirable. There are . girls in Wellington who are working in real estate offices who love the work, but they have not actually taken out a license and started on their own account. In England women have taken up this work and hare also undertaken house property management. They are said to be proving excellent property managers. , In New York a woman has taken up trading in Liberty Bonds. She is Mrs. Irma Eggleston and it is stated that she has handled 38 million dollars in trading over the telephone. The thought of girls in the real estate business even a dozen years ago would have been upsetting, but now with girls flying, driving taxis, teaching jiu-jitsu, canvassing, etc., it should be looked upon as a very attractive career to choose.