Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 42, 12 May 1927, Page 4

Women the World Over

IN THE MAJORITY

At a recent London dog show every judge—there were 70 distinct varieties of exhibits—was a woman, with the single exception of one male expert who travelled from Holland to judge a Dutch breed. The long list of judges included Airs. Quintin Dick, a leading sportswoman, who adjudicated among the gundogs, and the exhibitors included, among other well- known sportswomen and notabilities, the Duchess of Newcastle, the Duchess of Alontrose and Baroness Burton. FOR WORKING PEOPLE As a girl working in a Yorkshire factory, Airs. G. AV. Wilson, president of the Women’s Engineering Society (England) formulated the idea of building houses for working people. When she rose to a prominent place in the engineering world she still cherished the nation, and recently she had the pleasure of seeing the completion of the sixty-fourth home resulting from her early ambition. " She now has plans ready for many more similar homes. A TALENTED DAUGHTER Gilbert Frankau’s younger daughter Pamela is challenging the literary monopoly of the head of her family

by entering 1 the lists herself, and her book, “Marriage of Harlequin,” was published in March by Hurst' and Blackett. Miss Frankau has commenced her career early in life as she is only nineteen.

AN AIR PILOT England’s most youthful air pilot h Airs. Ranald, a young woman of 19 who recently astonished flying expert? by the ease with which she took her pilot’s certificate. She is the wife oi a British submarine officer stationed at Malta.