Council of Women

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1060, 26 August 1930, Page 4

Council of Women

j PRESIDENT WELCOMES j MANY VISITORS AT MONTHLY MEETING i I I MUCH BUSINESS DISCUSSED Aliss Carnachan, president of the Auckland branch of the National Council of Women, welcomed several visitors at the council meeting, held in the Y.W.C.A. last evening. The visitors included Mrs. Parker, of Alelbourne. an associate member; Airs. Gaff, of Gisborne; Airs. Blomfield, a New Zealander,' who has been in America for a number of years?* and later in the evening Lady Sidey, of Dunedin. The secretary was asked to send a letter of sympathy to Airs. LovellSinith from the council upon the death of her daughter, Aliss K. Lovell-Smith, who had been proxy for the Dominion president, Airs. Frear, at the conference of the International Council of Women at Vienna, and whose death had taken place in London. A letter was read from the City Council in connection with open markets stating that it was the council’s opinion that the time was not yet opportune for their establishment in Auckland. Aliss Carnachan read a letter from the superintendent of markets and market property in Melbourne, in which information was given relative to the organisation of the markets in Melbourne and pointing to their success. Jt was quite a common thing, ran the letter, for 2,000 private cars to be parked at one time round the market on a Friday night and this patronage of course considerably affected the price of commodities. It was decided to write another letter to the council defining more explicity what was meant by “open markets.”

Dr. Hilda Northcroft, convener of the sub-committee set up to gather information upon the Nurses* Registration Bill, presented a report, which concluded by recommending the council not to oppose the Bill. After some discussion it was decided to take no action at the present timeMrs. Blomfield spoke of the work of American women. In America,

she said, there were more than 2,000,000 women banded together in the various women’s organisations, and these were all highly efficient. A characteristic of the American woman was her eagerness to learn.

Tho speaker had hoped to find New Zealand women a little more loudly active in national and political affairs, end was surprised to find no woman in the New Zealand Parliament. Airs. Blomfield stressed the importance of active and energetic work being done the world over. Women had yet to realise their greater responsibilities, which extended far beyond the home, in a wider maternity and greater motherhood.

Airs. Kenneth Gordon spoke on behalf of the Cancer Research Appeal, outlining tho plan of campaign, and asked for the active support and cooperation of all the women’s organisations.

Airs. J. T. F. Alitchell brought to tho notice of the meeting the newlyformed Home Service Association, whose particular aim was to bring together extra help in the home and those able to offer that help efficiently.

The members of the council bade farewell to Lady Sidey, and she will carry with her the greetings of the New Zealand National Council to the National Council of Women in Great Britain.