WOMEN’S DIVISION OF N.Z.F.U.

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 195, 7 November 1927, Page 4

WOMEN’S DIVISION OF N.Z.F.U.

HAMILTON BRANCH A very successful street stall was held in Victoria Street on Thursday of last week by the Hamilton branch of the Women’s Division of the. Farmers’ Union. The funds are to be used by headquarters for the purpose of helping to brighten the lives of those in the backblocks. Already the Dominion headquarters have a nurse and five housekeepers engaged, and these are paid out of a community chest which is maintained by voluntary subscriptions and by sums raised. The work of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union is one that will be appreciated by all sections of the community. Much has been done by the Hamilton branch in the short time it has been in existence. It is hoped shortly to have cookery demonstrations by the Central Power Board, and it has been definitely de--1 cided to reopen rest rooms fo.r the use of member of the division and farmers’ wives, the sub-provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union having undertaken to put the rooms in order. The membership, which has grown steadily, is now over 60. Women students are now to be admitted to the Royal Veterinary College (says a London paper), and complete courses of instruction will be given for the diploma of the Royal College of Vetinary Surgeons (M.R.C.V.S.). It is nearly five years since the first woman was admitted a member of the college. Major F. T. G. Hobday the newly-appointed principal of the college, said to a Daily Mail reporter: “Women, in my opinion, can do excellent work as ceterinary surgeons and there is ample scope for them, ally in work among small animals, birds and poultry.” Several women students at the provincial colleges have obtained the diploma, and this year Miss Ida Lloyd Roberts, a Liverpool graduate, was awarded the Williams Memorial Prize for 1926 by the Royal College for the best student in the final examination —the first time the prize had been won by a woman.

Lord Trevor, of Brynkinalt, Chirk, near Wrexham, England was married at the St. Peter’s Church, Eaton Square, recently to Miss Phyllis May Sims, a nurse, and the daughter of a plumber. The bride, who is twenty-three years of age, met Lord Trevor, who is sixty - three, after she had been nursing his sister, the Hon. Leila Hill-Trevor, at a London nursing home. When Miss Hill-Trevor had recovered she invited her nurse to visit Brynkinalt. There she nursed Lord Trevor himself, and there began the romance which led to the marriage. The bride began her nursing career a few years ago at Sheffield Infirmary, and was on the staff of a nursing home in Manchester before going to London. Lord Trevor, who succeeded to the title in 1923, was formerly in the Colonial service in New Zealand. Luring the war he served with the British Red Cross as an ambulance driver. Later he was attached to the French Red Cross, and won the Croix de Guerre on the battlefield.

In the recent examinations of Trinity College (London), Mr. Alexander Watson, recommended Mrs. E. B. Lovel, of Hamilton, for the Fellowship of the College. In Auckland, Miss Elfreda Hall and Miss M. McCullough were recommended. These are the first ladies in New Zealand to achieve this distinction. Last year Mrs. Lovell was the first Hamilton lady to gain the Licentiate diploma, and this year Miss Doris Osmers has succeeded in gaining it.