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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21643, 13 May 1932, Page 13

There are in Britain only 12 full-time schools for training girls in household duties, and fewer than 600 girls are being trained in them. Women are sometimes hired to weep, or even to faint, at funerals in South American cities, as a “compliment' to the importance of the deceased person. The only blind girl graduate at Oxford, Miss Hazel Winter, went there after winning an open history scholarship. Many of the text books she uses are copied out in Braille by volunteer workers.