MRS. RIGGER'S TALK TO NAPIER TOWNSWOMEN'S LUNCHEON CLUB

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 47, 18 November 1937, Page 12

MRS. RIGGER'S TALK TO NAPIER TOWNSWOMEN'S LUNCHEON CLUB

Mrs A. B. Davis was hostess yesterday at^.the final meeting this year of the Napier Townswomen's Guild Luncheon Club. Crystal vases of Ieeland poppies decorated the tables in the partitioned room of Blythes tea rooms, and seated at the official table were: the president Mrs Bruce Barnett, Miss Jerome Spencer, O.B.E., Miss C. Pannin and Mrs D. J. Riggir, of Maraetotara; also Mrs Johnson, president of the Taradale Womeh's Institute, and Mesdames Cameron the Mitchell, of the Port Townswomen's Guild, who were the guests of the club. Mrs Riggir, who is pi'J.udtnt of the Northern Hawke's Bay Eederation of Women V Listvtntes, ga,*i a very interesting talk on the working of the institutes. Town^women, said the speaker, did not realise just how much the institute meetings meant to the country women. For instai.-e, in a mining area in the South Island women climb-. «d hills for miles iu order to be present at their insiicute meetings ard to see various demonstrations. So gr.eatly thrilled were they at a flower-making demonstration that the demonstrator was inundated with questions as to the procuiing of the material for the making of these howers, the women not being able to grow blooms of any description. In the North of Auckland, women v.Tllced seven miles to an institute nutting, others walked two a ti a half miles i-.Tong a railway track, so ix-terest-ed were they do hear helpful talks and to learn new ideas on various subjeets. "It y very nice," said Mrs Riggir, "to give a thought to these country women, and to helpvto broaden and brighten their outlook, and to get them internationally minded; .to think, as all members of guilds and institutes should do, of peoples in other parts of the worldi" Mrs Riggir, was wei.ring the badge of the Associated Countrvwomen of the World, of which, she said, she was very proud. Miss Spencer, in thanking Mrs Riggir for her talk, said that to get t/hings done it must be remembered — "Women for Women." On her motion a hearty vote of thanks was passed to Mrs Riggir. Mrs Barnett spoke on the success of the luncheon club, and thanked MiBS Speueer, who had suggested its formation, she having seen how very successful these gatherings were in England.