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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 286, 22 August 1918, Page 3

j Miss Helena Bourlic, an Anslralian ? Rir), lias heen appointed private seere- '; tavy to Majoi'-tlcneral Rose in (he War. | Otiico at Warhingtun, "U.S.A. (slates tho : i ".Sunday Times"). The position was adj vei'tised, aud .Miss Bonrke was chosen ? from over (ho hundred applieiints. The * secretnryship is a military appointment, y nnd all the oaths of military office had ? to bo taken before Miss Bourko took j i up her work. Over three years Miss | Bimrke was head ilenojjrapher in a Syd- | iioy firm. Jlcr health 'broke down find 5 she look a trip to America. She became | private seerolary to a merchant in Los 6 Angeles, and l.itw went to New Tori;, k where she obtained a position as private ' a secretary to a steel niiujnate, which posi{ion sho nccunicd unt". (he war post was | advertised. kf Three interesting item? of nows with j| regard to women come from America. ffi The first woman Judge in the district of a Columbia has been appointed. Miss ffi Kathryn Sellers, a Department of State Ig law clerk, has been made .Indgo of the S Juvenile Court. Mrs. Minnie M. Wh-lt- || ney has been elected president of the sf Missouri Pharmaceutical Association, and « it'is said that she is the first woman nho a lias held such a position in any State. h Another departure from the ordinary S IB the establishment of a Women's DeES partmsnt of Commerce in Michigan, at p Port Huron. § The fortnightly meeting of the Wel- § lington South Nursing Division was held I? in the Newtown Library on Tuesday H evening. Members worked in squads, H practice being necessary for the PlattsK Mills Cup competition to be held on TuesJj? day week.