PAN-PACIFIC CONFERENCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1035, 28 July 1930, Page 10

PAN-PACIFIC CONFERENCE

AUSTRALIAN WOMEN DELEGATES PASSING THROUGH AUCKLAND Australian women from almost every walk of life will attend the PanPacific Conference at Honolulu next month. The Australian delegation is travelling on the Niagara and will be joined tomorrow by the women who will represent New Zealand. Miss Eleanor Moore, secretary of the Australian delegation, said that the first conference, held two years ago, was such a success that it was decided to convene another one this year. In the future, however, any conferences must be convened by the Australians and New Zealanders themselves. Every subject with which women are concerned today will be discussed at the conference. These include education, health, industry, home economics, social service and women in Government. Among those who are representing Australia are the following: Dr. Georgina Sweet, D.Sc., leader of the Australian delegation, is now an honorary lecturer at the Melbourne University. She is a member of the Australian National Research Council and national president of Australia of the Y.W.C.A. Mrs. E. F. Allan, M.A., LL.B., is a member of the women’s staff of the Melbourne "Argus” and the “Australasian.” She was a delegate to the he ague of Nations Assembly at Geneva. Airs. W. Tennant Cooke, J.P., of Adelaide, is an honorary magistrate. She is a member of the Aborigines Advisory Council. EDUCATIONAL WORKS Dr. Constance Davey, M.A., Ph.D., has had a distinguished university career. She is a psychologist to the Education Department and is concerned in organising and administering the education of sub-normal, backward and difficult children. Dr. Davey is deputy-leader of the delegation. Mrs. John Eddy, 8.A., of Melbourne, has done various economic researches regarding tariffs and women in industry. She also does Y.W.C.A. .work. Mrs. Edith Glanville, J.P., of Sydney, did a lecturing tour of the United States and Canada in 1927. She founded the Armenian Relief Association Mrs. E. M. Griffin, M.A., was for some years a science mistress in New Zealand girls’ schools. She is now in Melbourne, where she is national general secretary to the Y'.W.C.A. of Australia. Miss Mabel MacDonald, of Sydney, teaches domestic science and hygiene in New South Wales schools. Miss Eleanor Moore is a licensed shorthand writer to the Supreme Court of Victo?ia. Mrs. David Munro, of Victoria, is an organiser and lecturer for the Education Department of Victoria. Mrs. L. Russell Smith is headmistress of Perth College, West Australia, and a lecturer on education at the University there. Miss Hilda Walter, M. A., is actively engaged in educational development. Mrs. Jamieson, of Sydney, is interested in the Women’s Christian Temperance Movement. Mrs. J. A. Wilson, J.P., is vicepresident of the St. Margaret's Maternity Hospital, Sydney, and founder of the Sunshine Club. Miss Mary Yeo, J.P., of Yass, New South Wales, has been principal of a private school at Yass for 10 years. She is interested in the Rangers and Girl Guides movements. Pr. Ethel Osborne, of Melbourne, is already in Honolulu doing secretarial work for the conference. Mrs. Jean Marcus Marks and Mrs. F. Pott are two associate delegate^