LOOKING BACK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21717, 5 February 1934, Page 3

LOOKING BACK

WOMEN'S ACHIEVEMENTS Quietly, steadily, and without any ostentatious flourish of trumpets women marched on in 1933 toward their "equality with men" goal. In the Civil Service, for example, Miss M. M. Langwell won first place against 330 men in the open competition for inspectors of income tax. At the Treasury a woman was appointed to the post of principal clerk for the first time in history.

At the London School of Dental Surgery a girl student carried off one of the inojt coveted awards—the Saunders Scholarship—which has always been given to a man.

A woman has become a member of the London Stock Exchange. More and *more women are training for lawyers and two women have set up the first firm of women solicitors in the country. In aviation, the pioneer is Amy Johnson (Mrs. Mollison), who was awarded the Segrave Memorial Trophy for her solo flights between England and Capetown and from Capetown to England. She is the first woman to hold this trophy, which is awarded to the British subject who, in the judgment of the awarding committee, accomplishes the. most outstanding demonstration of the possibilities of transport bv land, air or water. In July, Mrs. Mollison helped her husband to set up another record when they flew the Atlantic together from east to west in 29 hours.