AW INTERESTING MOVEMENT

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 48, 8 May 1930, Page 2

AW INTERESTING MOVEMENT

.A most onjo3rablc afternoon, whs spent recently at the home of Mrs. L JT. Watkins, when she enteirfcained the members of the committee of the Women'a • Social Progress I Movement. Mrs. Waitkins wore a frock 'of black georgette and chiffon velvet. Miach admiration was given to the decorations, there being beautiful flowers everywhere, the shell-pink dahlias in. the dining-room being specially attractive. The garden, with masses of bon- | fire salvias and winter-tinted hydran T I geas, was also a pleasure to the guests. Some very enjoyable music was. given* I a contralto solo by Mrs. Adair (Gis- ' borne), and a .son-g by Mrs. Schmidt, being much enjoyed. -■ Afternoon tea •was a pleasant item as well, and the speeches made were pantieulfcriy-appeal-i ing and interesting. Miss MocLean, C.BE.. (president of the movement), spoke of the necessity for all. women to combine to make the great freedom of the day a safe freedom, and expressed the opinion thait if women really combined strongly together fchoir efforts ■would be successful in making the opjportunities of the world safe and I happy for the younger generation. She asked that they would study tSie, problems of the day not only individually, but in groups, and not at any time to aSlow themselves to look at things as {hopeless, but" to go forward hopefully and courageously, with a determination, to help with all their power. The ■world was not only one of liberty, but-

of high speed—-a glorious world in nrany ways, but one which called for ■clear faeuljAes, self-conitrol!, and constant vigilance. Mrs-. W. T. Strand, Mrs G. L. Stewart, and Mrs H. D. Bennett also spoke, the hist-named urging the need for assistaniee to the young ones, who -hfad" a far more severe test to bear than the girls of former genera-' tions. Mrs' Ernesft Dawson also spoke interestingly on the following-up in.*ocial life of "fche early efforts of the League of Mothers. A eonimittee for group discussion was formed, with Mrs ■F.-S. T&onipson as convqner, Miss Biley as seicretaxy and treasurer, and the following members: Mesdames L. T. Watkins,. E. P. Hay, E. Lambert, E. W. Hunt-, B. Noble-Wilson, W. T. Strand, and H. S. Barron. A; hearty vote of thanks was passed to Mrs Watkins for her hospitality and to the singers forthe pleasure they -had given.