Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 897, 14 February 1930, Page 5

Women the World Over

A TURKISH JOURNALIST The Constantinople newspaper '•Haighin has as its editor Mme. Mark Hagonouch, whose opinions on topics of the day carry great weight in Turkey. She is the widow of a Turkish lawyer who was intimately associated with Kemal Pasha, and though only in her early thirties has a wide knowledge of the politics and problems of the Levant and the Near East. She was educated in England and Germany, and for some years studied at Cambridge.

A CLEVER DIVER America has a notable woman diver In the person of Mrs. Margaret Campbell Goodwin, of New York. . Mrs. Goodwin salvaged the copper cargo of the Pewabic, sunk in Lake Huron in 1865, five men having lost their lives in the attempt. She was successful in raising £60,000 worth of the metal from 180 feet of water. Mrs. Goodwin is now writing a book of her experiences. POPULAR YOUNG AUTHORESS Miss Constance Mackness is one of the younger Australian writers, and her books are extremely popular. Her latest, “Di-I)ouble-3Di,” is an Australian romance which challenges “The Glad School,” which sold so well. Others include “Miss Billy” and “Blossom Children.” COMPANY DIRECTOR Lady Bledisloe, to succeed Lady Alice Fergnsson as her Excellency of New Zealand, is chairman of directors of a railway company, the SwanseaMumbles, one of the oldest lines in the world. She is also director of a colliery. She shares with Lord Bledisloe fiis tastes in agriculture, in which respect he is an expert. A YOUTHFUL CHAIRWOMAN Sydney posseses the youngest chairwoman of a State Convention. Beatrice Leer, aged 15, was chosen to preside over the annual meeting of the Junior Red Cross branches held at the Education Building. Little girls also moved and seconded motions.