PAN-PACIFIC CONFERENCE

Evening Star, Issue 19800, 25 February 1928, Page 11

PAN-PACIFIC CONFERENCE

N.Z. WOMEN TO, ATTEND A STRONG DELEGATION [Special to the 'Stah.’J AUCKLAND. February 24. A strong delegation of New Zealand women will attend the Pan-Pacific Conference at Honolulu in August, leaving Auckland on July 31. rtie union under whose auspices the conference wilt bo held has already conducted a number of successful conferences of scientific, educational, and commercial interest, - The official delegates, already appointed, include Mesdames Fraer" (Dominion President of the National Council of Women), 1. E, Taylor (Christchurch), Doctors Emily Sie'deberg and Ada Paterson, Misses Emerson (Auckland), Dutton (Dunedin), 1 and five others to bo appointed. Other representative women attending include Doctor Staley (Auckland), Mesdames Denton Leech, 1. K. Sidey, and Hiss Olive Mercer (Dunedin)) and Hiss J. Tiffen (Gisborne). It is expected that the party will number twenty-fiye. It was during the Food Conservation Conference called by the union in 1924 that the Hop Mark Cohen, of New Jjonlfincij tlint, in tlio niterests of child welfare, the women of the Pacific countries should ho_ called together for a conference of their own. An organising committee was airpointed'to arrange for the conference, and that committee requested Dr Buckly Tiirkiugton and Miss Jean Begg, of Auckland, to act as a centraLcommittee in seeing to the representation of New Zealand. “Wo are very pleased with the calibre of the delegation,” said Miss Begg, ‘‘and we are assured that this dominion will ho : ably represented. Wo are now awaiting the Government s recognition of tho official delegates.’