METHODIST CHURCH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1939, Page 10

METHODIST CHURCH

LADIES’ GUILD MEETING. THE PAN-PACIFIC CONFERENCE. The monthly meeting of the Methodist Ladies’ Social Guild was held at the residence of Mrs J. H. Handyside, Lansdowne, Mrs Parker presiding over a good attendance of members. Apologies for ’absence were received from Mesdames Cocker, Jackson and Hancox. The Rev. F. J. Parker made an appeal on behalf of the British and Foreign Bible Society for collectors. Mesdames N. Miller, W. H. Judd, W. R; Nicol and Miss Jackson were appointed to the Guild Visiting Committee. The ladies agreed to cater for the Church Anniversary Social on May 22. TLe date for the first congregational social was fixed for June 28. The speaker for the afternoon was Mrs T. R. Earrer, who took for her subject the Pan-Pacific Movement, more especially among women. The first Pan-Pacific Conference was held at Honolulu in 1928; it came into being through the suggestion of a New Zealander, Mr Cohen, who with another Pan-Pacific worker, Mr Hugh A. Ford, declared that if peace prevailed in the Pacific it would be through the influence of the women. The object of the movement was to promote friendliness in the Pacific, with the ultimate desire of outlawing war. The next Pan-Pacific Conference is to be held in Wellington from January 11 to 26, 1940, at which women from India, China, Japan, America, Australia and other countries bordering on the Pacific will attend. Mrs Barrer paid a tribute to* the splendid characters of the women she met at the conference held at • Vancouver in 1934, and urged those present to attend the January conference in Wellington. During an interlude two appropriate solos were rendered by Mrs H. Speight. Mrs Parker expressed the thanks of the meeting to Mrs Barrer for her interesting address, which was suitably seconded by Mrs F. C. Daniell. , The pronouncing of the Benediction brought the meeting to a close.