HATS OFF TO WOMEN

Waipa Post, Volume 31, Issue 1776, 29 June 1926, Page 2

HATS OFF TO WOMEN

Women are to be found in 'every sphere of labour to-day, and are proving their grit and marvellous courage (writes a contributor to the Newcastle Weekly 'Chronicle). The world’s first lady diver is 'Miss Margaret Naylor, who has been appointed to try to recover the long-lost wealth of the Armada galleon. Women yacht owners include Lady 'Constance Baird and the Countess of Lindsay, while Miss •Dale, the New Zealand Government conductress, recently completed her fifty-fifth trip to that -Dominion. Following a cyclone, a European woman farmer abroad, finding her cattle without food, or shelter, trekked 400 miles to save them. The iScottifeli Island kingdom of Arran is ruled over by a lady—the Marchioness of Graham. Two ladies, Lord Birkenhead’s daughter and a friend, once spent most of a night in the Chamber of Horrors at -Madame Tussaud’s. They hid in the Old Bailey Dock beside the wax figure of Soddon, the -poisoner! A remarkable shooting feat was performed by a woman at Bisley. With 21 shots she scored IS bu'llseyes! The Duchess de Santona, who is closely related to the ISpanish Royal -Family, entered, the ring as a toreador. Baroness Clifton has passed the bar final examination, and intendjS to practise as a barrister and two -English women entered their balloons for the Gordon Bennett Cup race. One of the competitors has made flights since 1908. Two women friends, Miss Marion Best and Miss ■Marjorie Shaw, opened a weaving school in a country cottage near Harrogate. The Countess of Kinnoull owns her own flying machine, and has made several flights over London and Scotland. Her great ambition is said to be to fly across the Channel without a pilot. Women stockbrokers are no'w to be found in England, Germany, America, Holland, and, lastly, in Ireland,. and women are carrying on business as registered money-lenders. The fact that women are still willing, however, to listen to the call of home is proved by the noble action of Miss -Phillpots, head of Girton College, Cambridge, who, on the death of her mother, gave up her life’s work to take her pl3,ce at home.