Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 398, 5 July 1928, Page 5

Women the World Over

BLAZING THE TRAIL Two Melbourne girls, Miss J. Richmond and Miss J. Austin, recently undertook an adventurous trip in a small car through the practically uninhabited Flynn’s Creek Valley in the Grampians. For nearly 60 miles of their journey only a bush track led through the mountains. Few men have I attempted the trip and they are the j first women, but they declare that the ; wonderful scenery made the adventure well worth while. Last June Miss J Richmond drove her car through Queensland and Darwin and back—a j distance of over 3,000 miles. IN CALIFORNIA Mrs. Meta J. Erickson has accomplished that which big railroad magnates have long declared to be irp* possible for any woman—she is president of the Amador Central of California. In 1903 the railroad was built by her husband, but he died soon after, and Mrs. Erickson has been in command ever since. LITERARY DAUGHTERS Literary daughters, following in the footsteps of literary fathers, are a characteristic of present day life. John Oxenliam’s daughter writes popular books for girls; Harold Beghie is the father of a promising poetess; Pamela Frankau, the 20-year-old daughter of Gilbert Frankau, has written a novel of her own; Virginia Wolfe is a daughter of the late Sir Leslie Stephen, whose “Hours in a Library” has become a classic, and Maribel Edwin, the author of a recently published nature book for children, is a daughter of Professor J. Arthur Thomson, one of England’s foremost scientists and the author of many volumes on biology. IN IRELAND A recent photograph of Lady Anne Cavendish, the youngest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire,