ADMISSION OF WOMEN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 126, 27 April 1940, Page 13

ADMISSION OF WOMEN.

YOUNG FARAIERS’ CLUBS. Considerable support was expressed at the annual meeting of delegates to the Manawatu Young Farmers’ Clubs District Committee, last evening, tor a remit from the Rongotea club, 1 that the council of the Federation of Voting Farmers’ Clubs should consider the incorporation of young women into the movement.” The remit was carried and is to be forwarded to the AVelhngton District Council. Correspondence on the same subjectwas received from the Palmerston North branch of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union, which suggested that the activities of its junior members could be furthered by such a proposal, and that it would be of mutual benefit if the two organisations wore co-ordinated. , Air H de 0. Chamberlain said that in England, where the clubs were strongest, women were admitted to full membership. From his experience there he had no doubt whatever that clubs of mixed sex were infinitely better than "those where young men alone conducted them. In one club a young woman of 19 was president, and it was a great suceess. He seriously and enthusiastically supported tins remit, he said, hut there was only one way to have it adopted, and that, was to <*et the AVomen’s Division behind it. ° Mr A. J. Galpin said it was of particular pleasure to him to hear how Mr Chamberlain had spoken. He had previously made the suggestion that the strengthening of the A'oung Farmers’" Clubs could be brought about bv ioininc somehow with tile junior AVomen’s Divirion. Tf the young farmers succeeded in getting that organisation incorporated with their own. .it would lie the deciding force in showing iust how great a factor the organisation would he in the strengthening of a progressive agricultural policy in New 7e a Dnd. Air V. C. Lew's said that the young women in h-'s district were not _ keen in being enrireb' mined with the A’onng Farmers’ Club.' They preferred to keep the meetings separate.