NEWS BY MAH

Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1926, Page 4

NEWS BY MAH

ANGRY WOMEN TEACHERS. LONDON. .Funnily 2. "fin- suggestion that women married to lie kept was one they ought not to tolerate, declared Miss Dawson, a past president of the National Union of Women Teachers, at the resumed conference of the 'union at Bristol yesterday . A resolution protesting against the dismissal ol married women teachers on grounds other than those of inollieiency and urging tin: Government to introduce legislation to ensure the right of married women jo follow their chosen profession was proposed by Miss Dawson. wild added: "Some of us have not married a man to In- kept. We have all had a mother and we know that, sin- was not kept by the father. (.Laughter ami "Hear, hoa r.") " A woman might marry a mail who became ill. unemployed, or even a rogue. Unless she could help her husband in financial diilicnUie.-, a woman niigbi In- dragged down to the lowest level." Alj-.s Bniiutck (Loinliin) said it was a monstrous impertinence fur any public authority to pry into tin- familv arrangements of any teacher in their employment . Mrs Tidswell (Loudon) urged that until there was a law compelling a man to give a portion ol his earnings to hi-, wile it should not. lie right for a public authority to say that, because a man earned a certain amount of money, he could keep liis wife. Airs Key (Loudon) deprecated

women having to choose between marriage and their profession, "If I had had to make the choice." she said. " I ""old not bo Mrs Key. I should still be a leaelier, hut I should not ho tlm hapjiv woman I am." The resolution was nils sod. masked men’s crime. PARIS. .Jan. I. hove and jioliiical hatred are given as the motives of a clime committed the other night at the Ray of Biscay port of Rochefort.

Six masked men suddenly overpowered a young man of 28. known as Al. Alexandre, the son of a high officer in the Russian army, tool; him ulf in a motor-ear to a forest, where they bound him to a lice ami compelled him, under throat of torture, to swallow a corrosive poison.

The man managed to free himself and struggled to a farmhouse, where he was able to recount the crime before ho died.

The jailin' believe that the murder was prompted by jealousy on the part of .some local young men because the Russian liitd won the band of the daughter nf a wealthy local manufacturer.

AN lU, W'l.Xl>. . I.OXDOX. .lan. 2. A toy hallo hi sent 11 ; ■ IT mil Belfast on ('hri'imas Eve was found next day in Bavaria. | Attached to it iva, a message asking | the finder to return ii to its owner, i who. mi Thursday, received the I’ollou- | iug reply: ’’The balloon was found ill a tree. In fetching it down a finite new pair of trousers got torn. There is much unemployment here. If possible. a little assistance is asked for. I thank you.—AY. F. Konigsbofen.” WOMAN’S 3 YEARS’ AYALKINO TOUR. ST. IVES (Cornwall). .January 2. Mis, 0. Rickards, a member of a Snr rev family ot Cornish descent, rt—cfntly concluded a walk of 1,6-14 miles through England and Scotland, at 70 years of age. ■■ T began to walk to amuse myself, after giving up my country'home at the beginning of li)23.'' she said to-day.

“ Starting at Land’s End, I set out for York, but not by the straightest way, \vbic H h is through Bristol, for I wished to go by lanes and field-paths to study fauna and flora.

My route was bv the South Cornish coast, Exeter, Bath. Gloucester, Warwick. Rugby, Oakham, Grantham, Lincoln and Doncaster. In the summer of 1921 J went on to Inverness via Darlington, Durham, Berwick, Peebles, Edinburgh, Stirling and Perth.

This summer 1 reached .lohn o Groat’s, then went to Cano Wrath, in the extreme north of Scotland, circling hack by Ullapool into Skye, and end-

ing at Tyndrum, Perthshire. My actual walking time was 186 days. In the wild parts of Scotland 1 met only road menders, crofters, shepherds, and travelling tinkers. 1 walked in all weathers by day, carrying a light knapsack and a haversack. I sent a suitcase with clean clothes ahead weekly.

I lunched on biscuits and cheese, taking my other meals in hotels. 1 never felt lonely and 1 knitted and embroidered during my roadside meals.”

i\liss Rickards proposes to set out on another walking tour in the spring.