WOMEN INVADE INDUSTRY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 April 1926, Page 9

WOMEN INVADE INDUSTRY.

TITLED WOMAN OPERATES EIGHT HOTELS. DEVONSHIRE DAME RUNS A POWER STATION— British women have successfully invaded practically every masculine occupation. There are 'women manufacturers, women weather experts, women lawyers, women explorers, women mayors, women members of Parliament, women Cabinet officials, women anthropologists; there is a woman .aerial taxicab driver and a woman deep-sea diver. Many of them are pretty. All of them are capable. Some are titled, some are self-made. Some are married. Some are “surplus women” —the men who might have been their husbands buried on European battlefields. One British village—Lawford, in Essex —is entirely run by women. From Miss Emily Spooner, tax collector and town overseer, down through the schoolmistress, postmistress and postwomen, every municipal job is held by women. ■' The Duchess of Atlioll is Undersecretary of Agriculture in the British Cabinet, Alias Vildan George is an assistant at the Royal College of Surgeons, where she works daily surrounded by rows of grinning, skulls. There are 'many women surgeons and doctors.

Mrs. Elliott Lynn resigned the secretaryship of the Ladies’ Athenaeum Club when she obtained her license as a commercial air pilot, preparatory to taking up passenger-carrying work. Miss Margaret Naylor, Britain’s first woman deep-sea diver, is at present angling off' the’ coast of Ireland for treasure that sank with a Spanish galleon in 1588. Lady Honywood has just taken over the eighth of her string of large hotels. Lady Warwick is preparing to donate her huge county seat as the site for a workers’ university, plans for which she is now completing. Lady Richmond Brown is at home for a while preparatory to leaving for another exploring expedition in on© of the few uncivilised parts of the world she has not visited. , Miss Margaret Partridge is running the electric power supply of Bampton, Devonshire, after drawing plans for and supervising the erection of the power-house, the capital for which she furnished. Miss W. E. Piikington is patiently taking the knocks that go to any weather forecaster, as she carries on her job as meteorologist of Buxton. Many women are running factories, at some of which all the employees; mechanics as well as others are women. f ... But, perhaps, the chief' of nil British working women is the Begun), of Bhopal, now in Britain on a visit from the. Indian State, of which she is sovereign. Her territory extends over 7010 miles, and her dominion over 700,000 people. The State revenues are £500,000 a year.