INFERIORITY COMPLEX

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 70, 19 September 1930, Page 15

INFERIORITY COMPLEX

NEW ZEALAND MADE GOODS

The lecture room of the Y.W.C.A., Boulcott street, was well filled yesterday afternoon, when members of the Women's Social Progress Movement and the Young Women's Cnristian Association met to listen to an address given by Miss E. Melville. Mrs. Pengelly (who was accompanied by Mrs. B. L. Dallard) rendered two delightful songs, which were greatly appreciated by the audience.

Miss Melville prefaced her address on "New Zealand Industries and Their Relation to Unemployment" by stating that she was addressing women's gatherings because she considered women to be the most important section of the community. Whatever the women of any community wanted they could have, providing they wanted it badly enough. The women of. New Zealand wore obsessed with tho habit t>l! spending, and it was tho middle-aged women who were setting the standard, and not the young people, as they were s-o often lei to believe. But there was

a tendency to accept the privileges and advantages of citizenship without accepting its responsibility. She pleaded for a little hard-thinking and for an intelligent intercstfin the things of the commercial world. Our markets were flooded with foreign importations because the women of New Zealand suffered from an inferiority complex. They did not like Now Zealand-made goocls.

Miss Melville proceeded to toll hfr audioueu of the wonderful goods made in the Dominion, and asked i'or the whole-hearted co-operation of everyone present to relieve the great unemployment burden by supporting local industries.

A very hearty vote of thanks was accorded to the lecturer.