THANKS EXPRESSED

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 14

THANKS EXPRESSED

DEAN BOLLERT'S LETTER

Dean Bollert, international president of the Pan-Pacific Women's Association conference, has written ' the Prime Minister a letter of appreciation of the grant of £500 made by the New Zealand Government towards conference expenses. She said, inter alia: "The news of this contribution will be received with the greatest delight by all the members of the council of the association, not only because it will greatly facilitate the preparations for the conference, but no less because it is an indication of the contribution which your Government expects this conference to make to, the cause of international peace in whose interests it will assemble. It is. our faith that this association has already brought many of the women, at least, of the Pacifis area into closer understanding and friendship, and that this approaching conference will be, in all likelihood, the most important that has so far been convened."

Dean Bollert also wrote very appreciatively of the contribution made by the New Zealand delegates to former conferences, and concluded by expressing the pleasure of delegates at the prospect of being in New Zealand during its Centennial celebrations.

A booklet is in preparation by the Tourist Bureau for distribution among overseas delegates by the New Zealand committee. In an introduction to the booklet, the Prime Minister, while welcoming the delegates, emphasises also the importance of a fuller understanding in the maintenance of peace, and the great part that can be played by women in bringing it about.

The friends of Andri Bevin will have the opportunity of welcoming her back to New Zealand at a reception which will be given by members of the Lyceum Club on Wednesday, May 24, at 3 p.m., in the clubrooms, Lambton Quay. Members and friends are asked to accept this notice as an invitation.