WOMAN’S PART

Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1929, Page 7

WOMAN’S PART

WHAT HISTORIANS WILL SAY. “This has been called the ‘woman’s century,’ and when its history comes to be written I believe it will 'be said that women shared equally with men in achieving human progress and the betterment of conditions throughout the world.” So said Miss Ellen Melville in addressing the members of the Auckland Optimists’ Club at a luncheon last week, which was presided over by Mr J. C. Rennie. The speaker went on to say that the chief historian of the century would probably be a woman, and in support of her prediction cited the fact that one of tho greatest British historians was the late Mrs Green, who had just died. Miss Melville said that no matter where one might go throughout the world one would find that women were thinking along similar lines, stri/ing to advance the ideals of child welfare, tho betterment of community life, - the upholding of purity and the highest interests of the human race. Tho speaker traced the great accomplishments of women in the past sixty years and quoted recent utterances |hy leading statesmen of the world in recognition of the fact that women were destined to play an equal part with men in working ifor the progress of the human family,