Women the World Over

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1015, 4 July 1930, Page 5

Women the World Over

A YOUTHFUL ORGANIST The parish of Christchurch, in the Forest of Dean, England, has a very youthful church organist. She is Stella Dix, aged 11, the talented daughter of a working man. Besides being musical to her finger-tips, she is the holder of a scholarship at the Monmouth High School for Girls. A HOUSE AFLOAT Mrs. James Farrar, of Malaita, Solomon Islands, lives with her husband on his schooner and sails with him from island to island seeking recruits to work in the pantations. On each trip she accompanies him and recently helped him to sail the schooner from Sydney to Tulagi, the voyage taking three weeks, during which time a cyclone was encountered. A TEACHING RECORD A link with the past has been severed by the death of Mrs. Isabella Shaw, the first head teacher to be appointed by the old London School Board. She and her husband, who died several years ago, had a combined teaching record of 104 years. Mrs. Shaw reached the mature age of 93 years. A SCHOLARSHIP Now studying under a Rockefeller scholarship at the Stanford University, United States, is Miss Persia Campbell, M.A., of Sydney. Miss Campbell, who was formerly research officer to the Industrial Commission of New South Wales, represented Australia at the Pacific Relations Conferences at Honolulu and Kobe before taking up her new course of study in America.