MIGRATION OF WOMEN

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 342, 25 January 1937, Page 8

MIGRATION OF WOMEN

MISS POTT’S RETIREMENT. LONDON, Dec. 2. Miss Gladys Pott, 0.8. E. chairman of the Executive Committee of the Societ. for the Oversea Settlement of British Women, has retired, after holding office for 16 years. During that time the society has been recognised as the Women's Branch of the Oversea Settlement Department of the Dominions Office, has advised the department on matters of policy concerning women's migration, and has also been concerned with the day-to-day administration of women's migration schemes. Miss Pott has paid official visits to South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, and reported on the conditions affecting women’s settlement in those Dominions. She his also served as technical adviser to the British delegation at international conferences on emigration and immigration, and was a member of the Inter-departmental Committee on Migration Policy, whose report was presented to Parliament in 1934. Miss Pott, who has received from Mr. Malcolm MacDonald a letter of warm appreciation of her services, will be succeeded by Miss Edith Thompson, C.8.E., wh*- has been in New Zealand.