Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 212, 7 September 1945, Page 2

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Mrs. R. A. West wood, Grey Street, has returned from New Plymouth Miss Molly Rankin, of Christchurch, is the guest of Miss Peggy Scott, Somme Parade, Upper Aramoho. Miss Aileen Adams has returned to Ell ham alter spending a holiday in Vvanganui. Twenty-year-old Salwa Jawdat, daughter of Irak’s Minister to the United Slates, Ali Jawdat is to be Irak’s first woman architect. She is studying architecture at Harvard University. HITHER AND THITHER. Farewell and Presentation. Miss Esme J. Turner, Gonville, left yesterday for the Auckland Hospital where she is to train lor nursing. Before departure she was met by ner coworkers on the staff of the Wanganui Railway Station and presented with a lovely leather travelling kit. by the stationmaster. Mr. Joi, whose speech was suitaby responded to by Miss Turner, with an expression ol thanks for the useful and valuable gift. No “0.5.” Please. Because lai women du not like their dresses to be called “outsize,’ !he Board of Trade in England has adopted an alphabetic method of sizes— A. B. C. It was discovered by a questionnaire to retail buyers and manufacturers lhai the women approved the new system which they considered to be mor e satisfactory than the old one. Chair of Salesmanship.

A suggestion that chairs of salesmanship should be established at. the principal British universities, subsidised by industry, has been made by the Reciprocal Trade Federation, of the United Kingdom. The proposed syllabus includes the history, geography, economics, political, marketing trends, customs tariffs and habits, not only in Britain, but of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, or any other country which has prospects .for British goods. The federation states that the Dominions already have agricultural universities teach ng thousands of their best young men with rare success. It adds that the universities of Cape Town, Sydney, Toronto, Melbourne. Auckland and Wellington must quickly broaden their charters and widen their scope to provide the finest teachers and the soudest teaching for selling.