MODERN WOMEN AS ORGANISERS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22517, 27 September 1938, Page 9

MODERN WOMEN AS ORGANISERS

BEAUTIFYING ASSOCIATION SEEKS RECRUITS The organising capacity of modern women was an unexpected subject for debate by the six members present at last night's meeting of the Christchurch Beautifying Association. A minute previously on the associations books had recommended that a deputation wait on as many women s organisations as possible in an endeavour tc secure women members to take an active interest in the association's work. • , . . . Reminding the meeting that this had not yet been done, the secretary, Mr H Tillman, suggested that the search should be widened, so as to And a woman: interested in the work and with plenty of spare time, to take over the secretaryship. Women all over the country were doing, through their organisations, a great deal of beautifying work, he said, planting trees by the roadside and in other ways. "Looking round the greybeards and bald heads here I feel we lack the sex appeal to attract many women members," said Mr R. Eggleston, but members were not wholly in accord with him on this point. * The scheme had this to commend it, that through office training women were becoming excellent organisers, Mr Tillman said. In one golf club he knew, the the women ran their side of the activities put the men to shame. No pay was attached to the position, he added, but an elderly woman with the time at her disposal and a keen interest in the job could help the association materially. The meeting made no final decision in the matter, and the chairman, Mr Irving Sladen, said that in his opinion the meeting would have to go a very long way to find any secretary who would do better than the present one.