Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 885, 31 January 1930, Page 5

Women the World Over

queer occupations Few women can claim as strange an occupation as that of Miss Williams, who periodically traverses Great Britain with an attache case containing two jars of live mosquitoes. Science, discovering that sufferers from brain disease recovered if they contracted malaria, the Ministry of Health starjed a mosquito farm at Epsom, England. Having sucked the blood of mtilaria patients, the mosquitoes are sent, out to hospitals to inoculate those having brain disease. The insects do this through the gauze corner of the jar to the patient's thigh. When not travelling with Miss Williams, the insects are kept in cold storage!

YOUTHFUL INITIATIVE

Drought on Mount Buckley, Glen Innes (New South Wales) was the incentive to Miss Jean Noble, of that station, to take affairs into her own hands. With another girl and three good sheepdogs she went forth with 2,000 sheep to look for food, for weeks shepherding the sheep over miles of the country. When rain fell at Mount Buckley, Miss Noble returned without having lost a single sheep over hundreds of miles.

ENGLAND’S PATROLETTES A system of “patrolettes,” being feminine road patrols somewhat on the lines of the Royal Automobile Club, which, however, only employs the opposite sex, has been organised by ihe Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce, the British racing motorist. The automobile associations are protesting against Mrs. Bruce’s girls on the grounds that they will increase, not lessen, traffic problems.

JAPAN'S GIRL ORATOR ! Michi-Ko-Nishio is the most noted 1 girl orator in Japan. She is the j

grand-daughter of the greatest Shakespearian scholar her country ever produced.

CLEVER DRAMATIST London's youngest dramatist is Ann Casson, aged 13J years, the daughter of Lewis Casson and Sibil Thorndike, the well-known interpreter of drama. She has been writing plays for some time, the “Cammells are Coming” being produced at the Children’s Theatre. Ann herself helped to direct the rehearsals of the grown-up company.

OTAGO SCHOLAR Miss C. Laudreth, a graduate of Otago (New Zealand) University Home Science School, and B.A. of lowa College (U.S.A.), lias resigned her position as research specialist in nutrition in the State College of Washington in order to accept a Schleman Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship.