NOT FOR WOMEN ONLY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1939, Page 14

NOT FOR WOMEN ONLY

LECTURE ON WOMEN BY A

WOMAN

A lecture ,on women by a woman, but not for women only, is to be given on Thursday at 8 p.m. in the lecture hall attached to the Women's Section of the . Centennial Exhibition. The speaker is Mrs. T. R. Smith, M.A. (London), who is one of those rare people who has been able to continue her intellectual interests in spite of being a wife and mother. She has two children. Mrs. Smith began her educational career at the age of five, when she attended a school in Jerusalem for a year. From there she\went for a short

time to a school in Coventry, and then spent seven years at Hamilton House, a well-known school for girls at Tunbridge Wells. Her next step was Bedford College, London, from which she obtained her B.A.Hons. degree in History after three years. She then took her teachers' training in London, and afterwards came out to New Zealand to teach at Marsden School in Wellington for,] three years. She returned to London | and 'spent a year obtaining her M.A. Her thesis on "The Origins of International Rivalry in Samoa" was published by Allen and Unwin in 1934. ! l She returned to New Zealand in 1933, this time to be married. She has done some lecturing at Victoria College since 1937, and is now also teaching history to the senior forms at Marsden School. . . ~'..' In her lecture on Thursday she will describe how the position of woman in society in relation to man has varied from primitive • times right up to the present day. It will be illustrated by film strips.