NOT UNTIL INVITED

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 999, 16 June 1930, Page 10

NOT UNTIL INVITED

JAPANESE NOT COMING TO LIVE HERE MISS YUKI KIMURA SMILES e of you are afraid that the Japanese people want to come and live lci’p, but until we received a proper invitation we would not dare to come.” Miss Yuki Kimura, the Y.W.C.A. emissary from Japan who is concluding a tour of New' Zealand, made this -miling remark at today's Rotary Club luncheon, at which she was guest ui honour and chief speaker. ‘Some of you who recently visited day country found that after all we « o the same as you are/’ Miss Kimura aid in the deliberate and pleasing manner of one who is just a little shy in her surroundings. She added: T find the same here. We have our •problems and you have yours.” When she mentioned unemployment, Miss Kimura found an immediate contact. In Japan there were a million people out of work, which was very hard on the Government. Rut thev were doing their best. The same problem of how to find work for the growing generation was as pressing in Japan as in New Zealand, ft was as hard to find employment for the educated classes as for the labouring people. ”1 cannot count how many univer-sity-trained people are out of work.” the speaker said. She did know that in Tokyo alone 9,000 students of six universities could not get employment. Thousands of graduates of the schools were also unable to find work. Her own sex were very hard workers, Miss Kimura continued. Forty«ix thousand were in Government service and 100,000 employed in education. There were 700 women doctors. The women’s franchise movement was very strong and the Y.W.C.A. was very ■eager to help educate the women so •that they could ‘help instead of being nuisance when they got the vote.” WORLD FELLOWSHIP

*Miss Kimura is just part of the world fellowship programme,” said Miss Jean Begg. secretary of the Y.W.C.A.., who accompanied the visitox*. We brought her as an emissary of "riendship from Japan. She has made a tour of New Zealand and we have been well repaid from the widening horizon that has followed Miss Kinn ura's visit,” Miss Begg added. Miss Begg spoke at length on the work of the Y.W.C.A. in Auckland and appealed for sympethetic understanding of its task. On the motion of Rotarian C. TI. Furness, the club accorded both speakers a hearty vote of thanks.