Council of Women

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 456, 11 September 1928, Page 4

Council of Women

DELEGATES FROM PACIFIC CONFERENCE TELL THEIR EXPERIENCES

! L VARIED ASPECTS A special meeting' of the Auckland branch of the National Council of Women was held in the Y.W.C.A. hall last evening to welcome back the delegates from the Pan-Pacific Conference. Miss B. Carnaclian presided and introduced the various speakers, the first of whom was Mrs. C. A. Fraer, Dominion president of the National 'Council of Women and leader of the New Zealand delegation to Honolulu. Before giving her impressions of the conference Mrs. Fraer made reference to the supposed statement by Dr. Staley in regard to busines girls and ‘•flappers,” and was most emphatic in her statement that Dr. Staley had been quite erroneously reported. Continuing, she outlined briefly the formation of the conference, which had adopted round-table methods as being most conducive to free discussion in each section. There had been five sections—government, education, public health, social service and industries. A few open meetings of the forum description had also been held, when cross-sectional discussion had proved very helpful. Mrs. Fraer then named some of the papers that were read during the conference, and concluded with a reference to the extremely friendly spirit that the conference had promoted between the Australians and New Zealanders. WONDERFUL RECEPTION Miss Chaplin, chairwoman of the education section, told of the wonderful reception they had beep given in Honolulu. She said that one thing that had been definitely discovered from the conference just past was that a week was not sufficient time in which to cover the amazing amount of work that had been done. \ YOUNGER WOMEN NEEDED Miss Chaplin also stressed the need for younger women in such conferences. She paid a high tribute to the type of woman from the Orient who attended the conference. Miss Swain, a Sydney delegate in the industry section, brought to the notice of the meeting what an unusual feature of a women’s conference an industry section was. This section was very strongly represented from the United States and it was rather regrettable that New Zealand had not had a stronger representation, numerically, in this section. Both Australia and New Zealand had been the inspiration in industrial legislation for the United States for many years, and the States’ representatives were very anxious to meet Australasian delegates. Miss Swain offered some very constructive criticism of the conference mechanism. Mrs. M. M. Osborne, of Auckland, who was also on tho industrial section, spoke of the friendly relations that had been established between the New Zealanders and the Japanese. SOCIAL SERVICE A social service section delegate in Mrs. T. E. Taylor, of Christchurch,

gave some interesting infoi*mation re- j garding the work done by this less ! specialised and less technical section. : She had some authentic knowledge of ■ conditions brought about by prohibi- j Lion in the United States given by the i United States representatives. The urgent need for women police in every country had been firmly established at the conference. Another most important subject that had been discussed in this section was the cinema and its influence on the life of the people. Mrs. Denton Leach,-of Dunedin, the last speaker, was in the government section, but she spoke more of the social side of the conference. The j generous hospitality offered to the delegates and the entertainments arranged foi* them were all commented on and described to an interested audience. Miss Carnachan thanked the speakers for their extremely interesting addresses. ORANGE BLOSSOMS RIDGLEY—ROBINSON A very pretty wedding was celebrated in the Anglican Church, Waiuku, on ! Wednesday, when Miss Annie Robinson, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Robinson, of Waiuku, was married to Mr. Edward Ridgley, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ridgley, also of Waiuku. The Rev. J. C. Fussell conducted the marriage ceremony. The nuptial music was played by Mrs. A. S. Vaughan. The bride was daintily dressed in white georgette with touches? of silver and her veil was of white embroidered tulle. Her shower bouquet was composed of pink and white flowers. Miss Ivy Ridgley, sister of the bridegroom, as bridesmaid, wore a pretty frock of pink silk crepe with an overdress of green swiss lace and her cap was of pink tulle. Her bouquet was of coloured flowers with pink streamers. The bridegroom was attended by his cousin, Mr. W. Ridgley. After the ceremony a large number of guests were entertained at the wedding breakfast in the Oddfellows* Hall. The bride’s mother received the guests wearing a frock of navy rep trimmed with old rose, with hat to tone. Th.e bridegroom’s mother wore a navy silk faille frock with, hat to tone. HERRICK—HAWKINS A very quiet but pretty wedding was celebrated at the Dominion Road Methodist Church on Saturday evening last, when Miss Lorissa Elsinor Hawkins, third daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr. A. G. Hawkins, of Norman Road, Takapuna, became the wife of Mr. Harvey Burr Herrick, sixth son of Mrs. and the late Mr. E. W. Herrick, of “Oakleigh,” ISTorthcote. The bride, who was given away by her mother, chose a dainty model of gentian blue crepe facoime inset with fluted panels of fleur-de-lys grey georgette, and ceinture of toned grey and blue velvet flowers. With this was worn a charming little hat of blue felt appliqued with designs in silver grey. She carried a posy of spring flowers. Mrs. Hawkins wore a graceful frock of claret red crepe alonza with silver motifs and hat to tone.