WOMEN’S INSTITUTE

Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1933, Page 6

WOMEN’S INSTITUTE

■RESOLUTIONS .AT CONFERENCE

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CHRISTCHURCH, July 26

Ait the iWonien’.s Institute Conference, the balance sheet, which was adopted, showed a. total -credit balance of |£2'24 13s; compared with a credit at the beginning of the year of £B'! 6s 7d. During the year affiliation fees totalled £2BB, donations £l6O 10s, and profits on sales of literature £sl 6s 6d. Expenses for the year were £391 11s 6d. The secretary, All's It, Kelso, presented the balance sheet of the Institute magazine. “Home and Country, which showed subscriptions totalling i£453 6s Bd. cash in band £52 16s, and expenses £479, The following resolutions wer c carried :

That all nominations for the Dominion ‘.executive committee be accompanied by their qualifications for their work

That, the editor of “Home rind Country’- he asked to publish a series of articles on the running of night circles.

That it he a. recommendation to- Die •area federations that, to help maintain. the informal pature of the group system, each group .should consistriot more thin ten. and not less than four -Institutes, _ except 'in exceptional circumstances. 'l’-hat it be a. recommendation to the Institutes that each member of the Institute committees in all parts ()1 Now Zealand should wear a distinctive badge. That all the Women's Institutes i» New Zealand make a voluntary contribution towards rest houses, so that any member requiring rest and being unable to pay £1 ,P er week, may have the privilege by applying to the District Federation. j By an overwhelming majority the Conference defeated a remit fromNew Lynn, urging that recommendations be made to the UnemploymentBoard that married men working °n relief he not separated from _ their wives and families unless' willing to go into camp. After a ballot, Airs H, Patterson, of Pahiatita, was elected firet president of the Dominion federation. She has been a member for seven years. i • * Although the question of birth con-•t.-ol appeared on the .agenda, the-con-ference, by an overwhelming majority, decided hot to cliscuss'it, the chairman saving,it'led to sectarian controversy /,A -suggestion from Whitianga that the Institute should investigate the history of their .own districts with a view to I’m. publication of a series of 'pioneer- ‘a.was,warmly approved.