BUSINESS WOMEN
PRODUCT OF UNIVERSITY PRIME MINISTER'S TRIBUTE [from our own correspondent] LONDON, April 4 When presiding at a meeting at 10 Downing Street, called to launch the Xewnham College building fund scheme, which is estimated to cost not less than £IOO,OOO, Mr. Stanley Baldwin paid a great compliment to the sagacity of business women. There was, he said, an ample supply of women from universities with qualifications of a very high order. "I should like to pay my personal tribute to the industry, capacity, ability and loyalty of the women I have come across in Civil Service positions," he added. "Many of them are in positions in the course of their daily work to amass secret information. Secret information has a way of leaking very often, as we politicians know to our cost. I have never known a case of such a leakage being due to a woman, and 1 have known cases of leakage coming from men who should have known a great deal better." He anticipated that the great municipalities, businesses and industries would find opportunity of making greater use of the "very fine and splendid material" represented by university - trained women.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22404, 28 April 1936, Page 4
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