WOMEN'S INTERESTS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 393, 30 November 1932, Page 6

WOMEN'S INTERESTS

DISTINGUISHED INVESTIGATOR PAYS VISIT TO ROTORUA The work of country women throughout the world is the subject of particular interest to Miss Sylvia Corner, O.B.E., who is now visiting Rotorua and staying for a week at Hinemoa House. As a member of - the consultative council of the National Federation of Women's Institutes, England, Miss Corner is familiar with the life work of country women there. She has already studied organised country women's activities in South' Africa, Rhodesia, Egypt and Ceylon and has been for the last nine months travelling in Australia. She intends to be in New Zealand until February next. Miss Corner is a fellow of the Library Association and was awarded the Mons Medal and Order of the British En^pire for distinguished war service. She was a member of a voluntary aid detachment that went out to France in 1914 and in 1917 was made Qualtermaster-in-Chief of the British Unit of Women Clerks attached to the Central Records of the American Expeditionary F'orce. She was mentioned in both British and American despatches. Since the war Miss Comer has taken special interest 5n 'women's work, but particularly in that of country women. She has already colleeted much valuable data, photographs and cinema films of subjects that will interest country women in England. _ She hopes to visit all th'e principal cities hoth in the North Island and South Island and also the country districts in Otago, Canterbury and