Feminine Mayors

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 41, 18 February 1938, Page 11

Feminine Mayors

Very interesting news to non-pro-gressive women who take no heed of the usefulness of their sex in leading positions in other parts of the world appears in The Queen, which gives account of the women Mayors of England.

Pride of place is given to Windsor, which, for the first time in its long history, is to have a woman Mayor. This iady is Mrs Carteret-Carey, of Lower Ward, "Windsor, widow of Major Carteret-Carey, who was Governor of the Military Knights of Windsor from 1913 till his death in 1932.

King George V. made special arrangements for Mrs Carteret-Carey to remain in residence in the castle. She has many public interests, having been a town councillor for Berkshire, and she is chairman of the local area of the Women's Branch of the British Legion and of the Windsor Women’s Branch, secretary of the Princess Alice Home for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors, assistant honorary secretary of the Society of Friends, and a surprising number of minor activities. Other firsts in the Mayoral office include Mrs Pinder, wife of Colonel Pinder, J.P., one of the first women councillors and first woman magistrate for Stamford, Lincolnshire. Miss Florence Cohen is Mayor of Southwold, Suffolk. She was a shorthand-typist at the War Office before going to the Paris Peace Conference as secretary to Sir Harry Thornton. Miss Alice Arnold will be Labour’s first Mayor oi Coventry. Members of the many women’s societies expended a great deal of time and trouble in urging their members to try and overcome the apathy of a section of women voters which always exists. Much interest was shown at a women’s meeting at Caxton Hall, Westminster, when representatives of 45 women’s organisations met to consider improved methods by which women may be appointed in greater number in Parliament and on local bodies.