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Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1923, Page 4

The »™mi engineers of Croat lit itsiin listvo toot iii conlereme at Birmingham too first (enferem o of too kind. liv the v,ay, tinil lias over boon hold. The 40$ delegates icpresented almost every braneli i.f the ] tntcsMori. Tito American Society o! Mechanical Knirittoors sent a delegate. vs iii't F’rance and sovernl oilier countries. 1: is hoped eventually develop Urn Fngbsh society into an intortMtinnsil organisation. and to this cud negotiations sue in i rogro-s with a omen on giue.ers not only in the l nited States, hut in llollmd. Belgium. Deimtvrk. Sweden and Frame. Vulh.whn; the presidential addles- <.f l.tnli Parson-, wife of i lie I"imoils ini eui* r of I*io marine iiirhino. I’r. I> r F W . T3nrstjill. Born of tie Facility of S-iome. fill:i■ i ll uC m ITiivor.dty. pave an outline of the hr-to y of mechanied ongincotuig. in the <■ :ir-e of whis-ll ho remarked : •'FxeojU for tile sou inn inaohiiu 1 u.■ work oi'r lieu-eho!d- oil tine lilts hods of 20!) year- ill'll. It has always surprised mo that people should -till wash i!Cites with hot water and a re..!’ With the coming ot women ii s !te antieipaied a ii 1 n in ,i e to redtn <• t !:e amount «>l l heir drudgery. Me added, liawi, F’o i-. rollarv tl'at inventiim iiiiue best | ,. U| who wanted tt> avoid t!i<■ pvjinitive curse of work. Mine, f.oerfnt. whose presence at the rontereitce had the e.pprov al of 1 1 c Froioil Cow rnment. s) oke of the p :si- ,■: I, I out hoik of the woman cat■ •..: were i-'spcindin;; l' the sit,... t hem'll silent pre-sttre exerted Ity p;i.lilts fared with the fact that their d-ncdder-' must take tip a profes-h n. i the ,-ame time, women engineers in I'ran e titl'd been so far e. Mont to wink on narrow lines, and '■ n t eonsidei ing tinv form ei ettuiiieeroie, wltieh called for uni ;ihy deal strain.