PAN-PACIFIC PLANS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 129, 2 June 1937, Page 16

PAN-PACIFIC PLANS

HOSPITALITY ARRANGED

CONFERENCE AT VANCOUVER

Delegates to the fourth Pan-Pacific Women's Conference to be held in Vancouver from July 12 to July 24 will be most hospitably entertained, according to news received from Miss, Mary Bollert, dean of women of the University of British Columbia, who is chairman of conference preparations.

Miss Bollert, in her letter to Mrs. T. E. Taylor, of Christchurch, chairman of the New Zealand committee of the Pan-Pacific Women's Association, states that on the opening night, a garden party and buffet supper will be held at the home of Senator Mcßae, of the Dominion Senate, Ottawa. This will be the Canadian welcome extended to the delegates. Later in the week a dinner will be given by the provincial Government, with the Lieutenant-Gov-ernor and Mrs. Eric Hamber present, and on the following Sunday a folk festival will be held in which 40 nations will take part. The Lieutenant-

Governor and as many other people as may be deemed necessary are prepared to open their gardens for entertainment purposes.

The Women's Canadian Club and the Board of Trade, continued the writer, will each give a luncheon, and the Institute of Pacific Relations will- also hold a function in honour .of the delegates. Among the prominent speakers who have been -invited to give addresses are Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Miss Frances Perkins, Miss Lena Madeson Phillips, Dame Rachel Crowdy, and Miss Marjory Fry (the two latter of Lo/idon), and Dr. Leyton Richards, of Birmingham, England.

Australia is sending a delegation of from 10 to 12 representative women as full voting delegates, as well as three associate delegates. ,

From New Zealand the . delegation will include Miss F. J. Taylor, representing the Women Teachers of New Zealand; Mrs. Hugh Kaspar, of Auckland, representing the W.C.T.U. of New Zealand; Mrs. Kenneth Gordon, of Auckland, representing . the Federated Women's Clubs of New Zealand; Miss Elsie Andrews, of New Plymouth, a delegate to two former conferences, who will probably act as leader of the delegation, and Miss Hawkons, of Hamilton. .

It is hoped that Miss.Barrer, of Masterton, who has been studying youth peace. movements and organisations in Europe and England,, will' be' able to attend the conference on her return journey as representative of the Women's' Division of; the Farmers' Union, and possibly Mrs. J. A. Bennett,- of Wellington, a former (delegate. Dr. Mildred E. Staley, of .Hawaii, formerly of New Zealand, and Mrs. Marie Keesing, of Auckland, ' a research worker for the Institute of Pacific .Relations, Honolulu, have .been, invited to join'up with the New Zealand delegation for the conference. . . . ■ ,