Parsee Girl Barristers

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1933, Page 19

Parsee Girl Barristers

In a. quiet little flat in Hampstead Jives Avadai Mehta, a young Parsee girl from Ceylon who, at the age of 19, has passed her final examination for the English Bar (states the "Daily Mail"). It is an achievement that very few men or women havo equalled, and she has made history by being the first woman in Ceylon to qualify as a barrister. She cannot bo called to the Bar, however, for another eighteen months, because it is not until September, 1934, that she becomes twenty-one. Miss Mehta matriculated at the Maria Grey training college in North London, and in two and a half years completed her studies and took all Bar examinations. Miss Mehta does not give ono the popular impression of a .studious young woman. Her dark eyes twinkled, and she smiled delightfully when asked by

a reporter how she was going to occupy herself until she could be called. "Quito frankly, I am1 having a good time," she said. "I hffve finished with work for the moment, and am not bothering .with any more serious plans ahead. . ' . "I hope, however, to take my LL.B. later on, and then I suppose I shall return eventually to practise -in Colombo."