Council of Women

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1030, 22 July 1930, Page 4

Council of Women

I (,- ‘Y UNEMPLOYMENT

, RELIEF SCHEME EXCLUD- j I ING {VOMEN WORKERS j | FROM ITS BENEFITS j I STRONtiLY OPPOSED j j i

SOCIAL PROBLEMS DISCUSSED

At the monthly meeting last evening of the Auckland branch of the National Council or Women over which she presided, Miss Carnachan, president, brought up the matter of the Unemployment Bill, now before Parliament, and said that she had telegraphed the Dominion president, Mrs. hraer, suggesting that the council strongly oppose any relief scheme excluding unemployed women workers from itjs benefits. In reply to a letter from the council, Dr. Doris Gordon, hon. secretary of the Obstetrical Scholarship Endowment Fund Appeal, wrote mat Dr. Chisholm, who had been engaged on the staff of the Auckland Hospital, was the holder of the ±93U scholarship which had. been made available through the fund, at the Melbourne W/omen's Hospital. Dr. Gordon emphasised the point that the scholarship was open to women doctors as well as men, under the same conditions, and she further added it was probable that in the future the scholarship will be embraced in the bigger obstetrical travelling scholarsnip, which will shortly materialise from th© surplus of the Obstetrical Endowment Fund.

The establishment of an open market in Auckland was discussed and it Wits decided to write to the City Council asking if a site for an open market had been set aside in the council’s town-planning scheme.

A letter reporting on important social problems, including that of unmarried mothers and child welfare, w*ts read by Aliss Jackson, a delegate to tlio council. It was discussed by several of the members and it was finally decided to defer the question until copies of the letter had been sent to each of the different societies represented on the council for their consideration. In this connection Aliss Melville made a strong appeal to the delegates present to put their “thinking cups” on and see if they could not hnd some practical remedies for these acute social problems.

Replying to a resolution which liad been lorwarded from the council regarding the issue of licences in respect to dance halls and cabarets, the town clerk stated that at the monthly meeting of the City Council it had been resolved that the Police Department be asked to furnish a report on each application for a licence. Aliss Carnachan spoke of a deputation. of which she was a member, from the Returned Soldiers' Association, which waited upon the Parks Committee of the City Council asking that only native trees be planted round the War Memorial Museum. She read a reply from the Town Clerk stating that it had been decided that nothing would be planted, since no form of planting could add to its dignity or to the beauty of its surroundings.

A letter was read from Aliss Amy Johnson’s secretary, thanking the council for the cablegram of congratulation that had been sent to Miss Johnson after her llight from England to Australia.

It was decided to send letters of sympathy to the relatives of the late Sir Robert Stout, the late Sir Joseph Ward and the late Sir Maui Pomare, the merftbers standing in silence tor a few minutes in tribute to their memories. „