LADY OF THE HAMMER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21430, 3 September 1931, Page 4

LADY OF THE HAMMER

! WOMAN -AS AUCTIONEER A Surrey woman has gained the second place in the final professional examination of the Auctioneers and Estate Agents’ Institute. The results of the Institute’s annual examinations, issued lately, shows that out of 698 candidates. 428 were sue•eessful, ' ' In the final examination Walter Norman Read." of Ealing, was first in order of merit, gaining the DanielWatney golf}, medal and prize of 15 guineas. Margaret Price, of-Oxted, Surrey, was second, and Ewart Beaconsfield Pavey, of South-end-on-Sea, third. Miss Price’ is the first woman to pass the examination with honours and become a first-class member of the institute since women were first allowed to compete in 1919. She gains a 10-guihea prize. Less than 20 of the successful 428 gained first-class membership, which requires the gaining of a minimum of 75 per cent, of marks in each of nine subjects. , Miss Price is the daughter of Mr R. Arnold Price, an auctioneer and estate agent at Claphatn. Slid was busy in the offices of Price and Bathurst, Clapham, when she.tbld ah interviewer that she was. delighted and " perhaps a little surprised ”• a ( the result.- ■' - "“I was a teacher in a secondary school,' she said. “ but I fell that I would like to tackle something fresh, so 1 started, with my father's help, studying for the Auctioneers’ Institute examination two years ago That was the first experience I had of the business.” When she was asked if she would now become a partner in the firm of Price and Bathurst, Miss Price declined to give a definite reply.