WOMEN'S DIVISION.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20180, 7 March 1931, Page 2

WOMEN'S DIVISION.

NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' UNION. '• ( At a meeting ofthe Women's division of the Farmers' Union held on 1 ;J|areh 4th\in-Geraldine, a letter from ' jtse'Dominion President, Mrs 0, 0. Jack- | jaw" was received, thinking the branch. • y jfjfethe'Jtoany parcels of < bqautyful cloth- ? lor the! tfelief of sufferers' in < ItHe' eatthqaake faster, and describing, the work done by the Dannevirke branch of the Women's Division. .Mrs Livingstone, president of the ) -Dannevirke ' branch, nad.,washed «and dTessed the many babies who were born iin "the camps and parks on the night j following, 'the earthquake, i • Members of branches, Mrs Jackson j wrote, hbd gone to BT stings to help in the., hdspitals and the work was still going "on.* The' Women's -Division had 'offered (to the Government) tp" adopt all the children left orphans as a result o£> the earthquake disaster; theap would 'be the wards of ,th^e,Division, Mergers .were also helping the settlers t who " are jgrowers \>f ■ tomatoes and, small fruits to find' markets for their> pro-t jduoe, af all the distributing agents,and {buildings'in Napier are destroyed, and they art working for the welfare of the 'women, of Hawke's Bay when these ■ leaverthe' maternity and other hospitals. ' Mtb ' Jackson had bought £lO worth of crockery to send to the settlers who had lost everything, many having jnot a ctip or plate left. t f 7"^ —-