A WOMAN'S CONFERENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8162, 20 June 1906, Page 5

A WOMAN'S CONFERENCE.

OPENINGS THE COLONIES PRESENT.

Received June 19, 9.2 p.m. LONDON, June 19,

At the instance of Lady Aberdeen, Mrs James Bryce, ad other educated women, ,a conference was held * in London to demonstrate the openings the colonies presented for educated and trained women fittel to undertake the lighter kinds of agriuultural wock, such as fruit preserving and bottling, poultry farming, bee-keeping, dairying, or as v experts in domestic work. Sir John Cockburn, who presided, stated that Canada and Australia bad 280,000 more men than women. There was plenty of soope in Australia for women trained to any definite employment except clerical work. Mr R. B. R. Wise said that there an enormous demand for women willing to engage in domestic and agricultural pursuits. Mr W. J. Napier, of Auokland, stated that 51,000 women were needed in New Zealand, where special facilities' were given to associated groups of ladies qualified to engage in fruit growing. Sir Horace Tozer, Agent-General for Queensland, deolared that fruit growing afforded a profitable opening in Queensland.

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