WHO'S WHO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15649, 1 July 1914, Page 12

WHO'S WHO.

Brevet - Colonel Samuel Hkkaon, R.A.M.C., honorary surgeon Jo the King, has succeeded Colonel O'Keefie as inspector of medical services at the Horse Guards. Colonel Hickson served in the Matabele campaign in 1896, and was all through the South African war (18991902), his services being rewarded with a brevet lieutenant-colonelcy. He has only two and a-half years in hand before the age clause operates to retire him.

The King and Queen of Denmark, who reoenliy made a visit to England, aro certainly the most democratic of all monarchs. In Copenhagen, on the eo-called "audience Monday," anybody, without a formal introduction of any kind, may stroll in from the street to see how the King is getting on. Only those who come on official business arc expected to appear gala-dressed; ordinary mortals aro welcome in what they have got—from jackets and brown boots to frieze coats and wooden clogs. Several hundred people of ail classes often attend these inlonna! receptions, and are received for a few moments by tho King, one by one."

No little interest was caused in the London estate market recently by the announcement that the Duke of Marlborough personally would sell, by auction, a portion of his property. The Duke is a comparatively young man, having been born in 1871, and he succeeded to the earldom in 1892. He saw service in the Transvaal war, winning the mednl and clasp, and later became Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (1903-5). The first Duko was the celebrated military commander, and for his services a pension of £4000 and the estate of Blenheim wero settled or; the family by Act of Parliament

New York boasts that it is the only city in the world which can produce a woman master-builder. Miss Alice Durkin provides another striking instanco of how women are invading certain fields of employment, which but a few years ago were looked upon as purely men's preserves. Miss Durkin has now been in business for nearly four years. In that period she has erected buildings to the value of rfver five million pounds. She is the first and, as yet, the only lady member of the Building Trades Association of New York. Her father was a millionaire, but was unfortunate in losing nearly all his money. The daughter set out to earn her own living, and made a start in a leading New York builder's office just fourteen years ago. She gained information about materials, labour, and other things, of which a contractor must possess expert knowledge, simply by "pumping" the workmen. Plumbers, masons, labourers—all were fountains of learning to her. In addition she studied and attended evening classes. After a year of this she began to work out contract figures, and proved a success at once. Her success she puts down to a clear head, tact, awl a good knowledge of mathematics- Miss Durkin superintends all details of her business, and is to be seen moving about amongst scaffolding poles and piles of mortar and bricks, directing her workers in their building operations. She employs eevon hundred men,