_The Evening Post_, 19 Jan 1924:
WOMEN IN PRINT.
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The problem of the future occupation of pupils of the school was touched upon briefly by Miss W. Picken, headmistress of the Auckland Girl's Grammar School. Miss Picken said she had made inquiries from parents for advice on this point, and while a great number turned naturally to teaching as the most obvious career it was not every girl who had either the taste or the capacity for this work. She thought, however, that the addition of journalism to the university subjects offered a possible opening for a few, while architecture, at least in some of its branches, would, to her mind, prove quite a possible and congenial profession for women.
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