LADY OF THE HAMMER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 192, 15 August 1931, Page 19 (Supplement)

LADY OF THE HAMMER

WOMAN AS AUCTIONEER. ENGLISH GIRL’S SUCCESS. A Surrey woman has gained the sec* ond place in the final professional examination of the Auctioneers and Estate Agents’ Institute. The result of the Institute’s annual examination, issued lately, shows that out of 698 candates 428 were successful. In the final examination Walter Norman Read, of Ealing, was first in order of merit, gaining the JYaniel Watney gold medal and prize of 15 guineas. Margaret Price, of Oxted, Surrey, was second, and Ewat Beaconsficd Davey, of South-end-on-Sea, third. Miss Price is tho first woman to pass tho examination with honours and become a first-class member of tho - stitute since women was first allowed to compete in .1919. She gains a ll'guinea 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 Clapham. She was busy in the offices of Price and Bathurst, Clap ham. when she told an interviewer that she was delighted and “perhaps a little surprised” at the result. ”1 was a teacher in a secondary school,” she said, “but 1 felt that I would like to tackle something fresh, so I started, with my father’s help, studying for the Auctioneers’ Institute examination two years ago. Thai was the first experience 1 had of the business. ’’ When she was rsked if she would now become a partner in the firm of Price and Bathurst. Miss Price declined to give a definite reply.