THE BUSIEST WOMAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21068, 30 December 1931, Page 3

THE BUSIEST WOMAN.

NO TIME FOR SHOPPING. T have just retired a little brcalnlessly from my first talk with London's busiest business woman, -writes an overseas correspondent. She is the wife of Mr. Sidney G. Brown, inventor of talking-film apparatus, gyroscopic compasses, and other ingenious instruments, and she is in charge of the factories which produce his inventions. Our talk took place in a room at the works of the firm, and I was not prepared to find a director of two companies, an architect, editor of a magazine, an amateur zoologist, pig farmer, and welfare organiser in the person of the quietmannered, white-haired, friendly woman who sat behind the desk. When I remarked on her versatility, Mrs. Brown said: — Not a moment of my day is wasted.. I have so many conferences with chemists, engineers, and heads of shipping lines interested in my husband's marine instruments that when I need a new dress I only allow myself half an hour of my lunch-time in which to buy it. My house at Shepperton (Middlesex), which I designed and built myself, has a zoological garden of 120 acres, in which I have collected llamas, monkeys, zebras, kangaroos, ostriches and hundreds of other birds and beasts. In addition, I have started a pig farm, where T have nearly 500 enormous bacon pigs. Then there are my winter gardens in which I grow bananas, pineapples, passion flowers, sugar-cane and tobacco.

Mrs. Brown also said that other moments of her spare time were taken up in editing a magazine and running a welfare centre which she had started.