Bay Of Plenty Women Will Be Attending W.D.F.F. Conference

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 17, 31 March 1950, Page 5

Bay Of Plenty Women Will Be Attending W.D.F.F. Conference

Approximately 1000 women, including delegates from branches throughout the Bay of Plenty, are likely to attend the annual conference of the Women’s Division of Federated Farmers in Wellington in June. It is expected that Her Excellency Lady Freyberg, will open the conference. Last year about 600 women attended the conference in Wellington.’ As the division will, be celebrating the twenty-fifth'year of its formation the opening day of the conference will most likely be concerned with special events in this connection.

The official opening will be on the morning of June 27. There will probably be an “at home” in the afternoon and at night some form of pageant representing the division’s quarter-century of achievements. The conference will conclude on June 29.

The Dominion president, Mrs J. R. Haldane, Golden Bay, will preside. Immediately following the conference she will leave New Zealand to attend the triennial conference of the Associated Country Women of the World, to be held at Copenhagen in September. Two others of the five W.D.F.F. delegates from New Zealand will leave with Mrs Haldane, Mrs Stevenson, Wellington, editor of the division’s official journal, and Mrs W. Elliott, Clarendon, immediate past Dominion president, Mrs W. Orr, Balfour, Southland, and Mrs P. C. Jordan, Wellington, who will also attend, have already left the Dominion.