WOMEN'S DIVISION

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 15, 17 July 1937, Page 18

WOMEN'S DIVISION

CONFERENCE CLOSES

Further remits were considered at yesterday'.s session of the Women's Division. Farmers' Union, Conference. Remits were passed as follows:— "That in view of the. fact that the profits made by armament firms are an inducement to them to welcome war as a means of making further profits, we consider the manufacture of arma-1 ments should be a Government undertaking."

"That we urge the Government to lose no time in arranging for the erection on farms of cottages for married employees."

"That we deplore the fact that in the past Governments which have been pleased for New Zealand students to accept Rhodes Scholarships have failed to do their part in the scheme of Cecil Rhodes by making use of these young men on their return to New Zealand." —South Auckland.

"That the hours of work for nurses who are training be modified to enable them to devote more time to their studies."—Otago.

"That this conference expresses its firm belief that legislation should be introduced to provide for the training and employment of suitable women as police officers, and asks that a letter be sent to the Minister of Justice affirming this." —Otago.

The division's hon. representative in England at present is Mrs. Helen Harris, and letters were read at conference from her.

The president, Mrs. Drake, especially congratulated Mrs. Livingstone 'Dannevirke), and Mrs. Nesbit Mclntosh (Southland) for representing, the division at a minute's notice in an impromptu debate. This debate was one of the bright spots of the conference.

Mrs. Livingston asked the conference to put on record the valuable con tribution ihe Barrer family had made to the division in arranging that their daughter. Miss N. Barrer, who is abroad, should proceed to Vancouver and represent the division at the PanPcicific Conference. Mrs. Barrer vas the division's representative at the last Pan-Pacific Conference.

Further offices were filled by Mesdames Mathieson, McNeil, and Preshaw (all of Wellington), and Mrs. Hawthorn (Upper Hutt) being appointed to the finance committee, Mrs. Hebberd (Taihape) and Miss Poison (Wanganui> being .re-elected to the Advisory Bush Nurse'and Housekeeper Auxiliary; Mrs. C. C. Jackson (Wairarapa) to the PanPacific Committee; Mrs. Lundius (Wellington) being elected to the war relief committee; Mrs. Angas (Wellington), to the Red Cross committee; and Mesdames F. Drake, T. R. Barrer, and Noel Adams (Waitemata) being re-elected to the co-ordination committee.

The conference closed at noon an rl handsome bouquets were presented to Mrs. Drake, Mrs. Wickham, and Mrs. Wilson.

A large number of members were shown over the new railway station, end the Parliamentary Buildings during the afternoon.