DELEGATES CONFER

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 28, 28 October 1942, Page 3

DELEGATES CONFER

Weekend Council Meeting

A meeting of the Dominion council of the Federation of Business and 1 rofessional Women’s Clubs of the A.W.C.A. ol New Zealand was held in Wellington during the weekend. Delegates attended from the clubs at Hamilton, Napier, Palmerston North, Wellington rind Christchurch. The affiliation of the ciuo at Napier makes eigh t clubs m the federation. . , ... All the clubs are studying social conditions and educating members for the building up of the new world after peace. The survey of the status of domestic service in New Zealand, requested by the British federation, has been completed and copies sent cut. All clubs co-oper-ated in gathering the material, and in typing the necessary number of copies. The British federation is organizing a “Women for Westminster Campaign and. tlyi New Zealand federation is studying the material sent out with a view to its application in New Zealand, Di. Madesin Phillips, New York, the international president, has announced that the subject for the next International Night, Ifebruary 25, 1943, will be “A Just and •Durable Peace.” There will be a world link-up by radio from Dr. Phillips and reports from all federated countries. A study on the subject .was read by the Hamilton club, and will bo sent to Di. Phillips for the International Night. An international afternoon was held at the home of the Dominion president, Miss M. D. Toulsou. Among the guests were Mrs. P. Fraser, Dr. Sylvia Chapman and .Mrs. F. J. Martin, president of the Wellington Y.W.G.A.