... Monle, the Bishop of Truro (Dr. Stubbs), Bishop Sheennlmnks. the Rev. Dr. Stephenson, the Rev. Dr. Griffith John, Miss Octavia Hill, and Dean Kitchin. Viscount Peel, former Speaker of the House of Commons. died in October at the age of eightythree. Science ...

... talents to that famous allegory. In letter to *editor the weekly mentioned, Alice Weber, referring to review of the life Octavia ■ Hill (the social reformer who, with John Buskin, did so much to better houses the London poor forty to fifty years ago), recalls ...

... most people the collecting rents appears to be a sordid occupation, or at best a matter of dreary routine, but for the Octavia Hill trained manager it is both interesting and highly skilled, and forms the basis of the entire work of management. The weekly ...

... 1944 when the post of Advisor in Housing Management to the Ministry of Health was created. A woman manager, trained in the Octavia Hill method, has held the post since that date, and similar appointment has been made by the Department of Health for Scotland ...

... for women, Mrs Maitland said:— Housing estate management as a career for women has its origin in the life and work of Octavia Hill, who was one of the great pioneer social workers of the last century. Though times and conditions have changed considerably ...

... anti-suffrage would show a greater balance of work done for the poor, the sick, and the suffering. The life-long work of Miss Octavia Hill is well known, and here is the letter she has sent the Times: Sis,—l am sorry to enter into the political world, even ...

... in. our Cupar news directing attention appeal by a London, lady. Hiss Octavia Hill, for the preservation of the “walks by the Wandle,” and remarking 4-hat could do with a Miss Hill in Cupar who would make a similar appeal, locally, behalf of the walk ...

... local authority: he was told, and they had not got and the centralised system begun by house yet. Building was going on Octavia Hill at the end of the last slowly, and people would have to be century, under which all functions, patient for some time. He ...

... or facilities to decide these great matters.- On the other hand, we have splendid workers, Mrs Frederick Harrison, Miss Octavia Hill, etc., who are working untiringly for the benefit their poorer sisters. This cutting from the Tines sets forth well the ...

... wEo, herself A True Woman is making herself unnecessarily unhappy about the effect of votes for women. She quotes Miss Octavia Hill and her splendid philanthropic work as example of what woman who does not wish for woman suffrage can do ; but she is not ...

... the last century have largely disappeared and the work of the woman housing manager is very different from what it was in Octavia Hill’s day. But the principles which lie behind the work are the same, and wise and sound management to-day is still based on ...

... Inglewood. C mock Road. Dunfermline 2,716 1 John Chalm'TS, Keith Street, Kincardine-on- Forth 2,534 Mrs Mary T. Borthwick, Octavia Street. Kirkcaldy 2.500 George Page, Commercial Crescent. Lady bank 2,414 Mrs Helen Meehan, Craigmount, Tayport 2,282 ...