WOMEN'S SUCCESS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23599, 7 March 1940, Page 2

WOMEN'S SUCCESS

PART IN PUBLIC LIFE NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS A ROUND-THE-WORLD REVIEW > A brief review of the achievements of women in various countries of the world is given in the Women's International News, the records covering the year just past. New Zealand's name is, unfortunately, conspicuous fay ~ its absence, but reference is made to Aus- " trnlia on the fact that women members were re-elected to the State legislature! of Western Australia. Another Dominion referred to is Canada, where women were elected to the Provincial Legislature of Alberta. Going further afield, the article points out that two women were in the Senate and two in the Chamber of Deputies in Belgium. Two women were elected to municipal councils in the Dutch East Indies, while the legal profession had been opened to women in French colonies.

Lord Mayor of Dublin The election of the first woman chairman of the London County Council is noted in Great Britain, while mention is also made of the first woman Lord Mayor of Dublin. Jamaica now can boast its first woman municipal councillor, and Rumania its first woman senator. Women have been admitted to the legal profession in Japan, and they have obtained equal suffrage and eligibility in Mexico. In Turkey, 14 women were elected to the National Assembly. Finally cdmes Soviet Russia, where the -first; woman member of the Academy of Science was appointed, and where another has been appointed chief of the international air lines in Russia. War-time Activities

Women's war-time activities are also included in the review, which states that women pilots are to be employed in Great Britain to fly new light aircraft from the factory to the aerodrome for the Royal Air Force, and that at present eight women are employed as a section of the Air Transport Auxiliary:-Service under British Airways, Limited. In Denmark, the War Ministry has appointed Miss Ada Bruhn, professor of archaeology, as an assistant at the Copenhagen Arsenal, while in the Dutah East Indies a committee for women's work in tune of war has been founded with representatives of all the principal women's organisations, Finally, in Montreux, Switzerland, there was opened recently the first _ hostel for women on war service. Nurses and women engaged in air raid precautions and other forms of service are now making use of what was a home for soldiers founded 25 yeajs ago by a woman, Mine. Tublin-Spiller.