South Africa is certainly the land of promise. Whether there is any link between the discovery of its new gold mines, and the migration of girls to that favoured land one does not know, but by all accounts South Africa is one of the best fields in the world for women workers.
The Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women had a very busy time last year in sending girls to Africa. 100 went to Rhodesia and 530 to the Union. The largest class, 130, were school teachers and governess next came hospital nurses, 122 is also a bri demand for and nursery go ernesses. ciety has also been sec taries girls go out betimes th to posts prepared for them; sometimes just "on They are met at Capetown by pitality committee which looks after them till they find work as, it is said, they soon do, Instances are known of girls giving up better paid posts in London to go out to the Cape, attracted by the s sent them by lowing t of South Afri: t known what the] relative proporves im South Africa. guess li be some comfort to time h h travel li faster t riy man has ever travelled on a motor cycle before Writer in "Sunday Express."
Miss Jean Batten, C.B.E., Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (France). was presented to the King and Queen at the second Court of the season. She is the world's greatest woman Nier, the holder of many world's records, and is a New Zealander—her father. Capt. F. H. Batten, being a dental surgeon im Auckland.
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