WOMEN MAGISTRATES AND THE SUMMER SCHOOL AT ST. HILDA'S COLLEGE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—As it is difficult to secure a complete list of Women Magistrates and Justices of the Peace I venture to ask for space in your columns to call the attention of any women magis- trates among your readers to the special section on the Administration of Justice, which will form part of the Summer School arranged by the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, to be held at St. Hilda's College, Oxford, from August 26th to September 2nd. The subjects dealt with include Probation Work, Institutional Treatment of Adults and Juveniles, Psychology and Crime, &c., and the Directors of the School have been fortunate in securing, among other lecturers of experience, Mr. T. Mott Osborne, from the United States, whose lectures on Penal Reform have attracted a great deal of attention.
It is hoped that mutual discussion among women magistrates of their common problems will prove much more helpful to newly appointed members of the Bench than the perusal of the rather encyclopaedic handbooks upon which they have hitherto had to rely. In addition to this section, the School (August 19th to September 2nd) covers other subjects of special interest to women, including the Economic Position of Women, Legisla- tion affecting Women and Children, Problems of Local Govern- ment, the League of Nations and International Relations, and a special section dealing with election and Parliamentary work. Women from overseas at present in this country, as well as other visitors or residents in Oxford, will receive a very warm welcome. I may add that men are by no means debarred from attending the School. Full particulars may be had at St. Hilda's College, Oxford.—I am, Sir, &c.,
ELIZABETH MACADAM, Hon. Sec. National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship,
Evelyn House, 62 Oxford Street, W. 1.
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