THE NEW WOMAN.
AY hen theccmmitlceof the Alelbcurhe Hospital instituted the practice of appointing six medical students who headed Hie honour list of the University each year to positions as resident officers, it did not calculate upon the opposite sex entering tho raulcs of tho profession, or at any rate securing high University honours. ’This year tho committee is brought face to face with the fact that the first six students include two ladies, and tho expectation that theso will apply to Do appointed to (ho posts is causing the members much anxiety.
Women have assorted their claims to many of the professions of the male sex, but Miss Barton is perhaps tho firs - to seek a marine officer’s position. This lady, who has been a stewardess for some years, applied to the Alarino Board to be allowed to enter for the second mate’s examination, but the Board refused permission, because tho regulations required four years’ service on deck with practical seamanship. The lady announces her intention to proceed Homo and endeavour to compass her ambition there.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1260, 23 April 1896, Page 16
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177THE NEW WOMAN. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1260, 23 April 1896, Page 16
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