WOMEN’S WORLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 120, 17 April 1930, Page 11

WOMEN’S WORLD.

(By “GERMAINE.”)

Mr and Mrs H. Bateman left to-day for a visit to Hawke’s Bay. Mrs P. L. Sim has returned from a visit to Hawke’s Bay. Mrs H. B. Free, Palmerston North, is spending a few days at Cambridge. Mrs Norman Sinclair, of Alan Street, is spending Easter at the National Park, Tongariro. Mr and Mrs W. T. Penny left today for Auckland where they will spend a few days prior to visiting Tauranga and other towns in the north. Miss Josephine Faircloth and Miss Dorothy Simms left Palmerston - North on Tuesday to spend the Easter vacation in Wellington. Miss Edith Green, who had the misfortune. to cut her foot while bathing at Plimmerton beach a fortnight ago, has recovered sufficiently to return to her home at Palmerston North. After thirty-five years’ service with the Education Department, Miss Louisa Morgan, infant mistress at Mount Cook School, Wellington, has retired. Miss S. Norris and Mrs L. Sell, the Plunket nurses at Levin and Otaki respectively, have returned from a motor tour in which they covered 1360 miles, visiting National Park, Wairakei, Rotorua, Arapuni and Auckland, returning via Taranaki. That Chinese women are not slow to take advantage of opportunity ?s shown by the fact that one girl, who was educated in France, was made a judge of the High Court recently, while another began to practise as a doctor 44 years ago. Dr. Cyril King, of Palmerston North, lectured to the members or the New Zealand Trained Nurses’ Association at the nurses’ home at the Hospital on Tuesday evening on the subject or X-rays. Dr. King submitted several unusual plates .to the members and at the conclusion of his address was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. Miss McGhia (matron of the Palmerston North Hospital) presided. At the age of only 24 Miss Laura Bowen,-has . been appointed general manager of a Urge drapery and furn-ishing.-store -in London. A httle more than three, years ago Miss Bowen joined the firm as secretary to tno buyer and after having gained her B.Sc. at Londtfn University,.sett.ed down to learn all she could of, admin-

istrative methods. Her unusual abilities were soon recognised, as a result of which she received her new appointment. ' . The first woman in America to have the position of aerial policewoman is Mrs Ulysses Grant McQueen, of Beverley Hills, California. Mrs McQueen’s other claims to »erial fame are that she founded and is president of the AVomen’s Aeronautical Association of California, is chairman of tho aviation division of the California Women of the Golden West, originator of last year’s AA T omen’s Air Derby in the United States, and founder, and vice-president of the AA 7 omen’s International Association of Aeronauts. PITTSBURG’S PERPENDICULAR UNIVERSITY. - Miss Elizabeth Kerbaugh Read writes about the wonderful new university, rising 52 storeys high from the midst of a 14-acre tract of gardens and park, in the heart of America’s steel centre —Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. It is the new home of tire University of Pittsburgh, where 12,000 young men and women and over 500 instructors will hold their classes in future. Already the steel structure of the 2,000,000 dollar building, which towers in pyramidal heights to the sky, is completed. There is a breath-taking beauty in the stark outlines of this building that marks a new departure in the use of American skyscrapers. In place of the rolling lawns and quiet shaded lanes of the traditional university, this one, now housed in numerous low white buildings clustered round the feet of the rising monster, will stand like a cathedral of learning amid the industrial turmoil of the .city. Is it a beauty which the English university student could love and reverence ? Perhaps not. But, like the New York skyline, there is something majestic and magnificent and visionary in it. . . Surpassed onlv by such buildings as tho AVoohvorth and Metropolitan Towers, Pittsburgh’s perpendicular university has risen to a height of 680 feet. It is strange to think of tiro schools of an entire university, except the dental and medical branches, piled one on top of another, with class-rooms, recreation rooms, laboratories, lecture halls, libraries and workshops, all under one roof.”—lllustrated London News.