PAN-PACIFIC CONFERENCE

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20821, 3 June 1939, Page 18 (Supplement)

PAN-PACIFIC CONFERENCE

JANUARY, 10 10 Dean Rollert, International President of the P.P.W.A. has written the Prime. Minister a letter of appreciation of the grant of £SOO made by the New Zealand Government towards Conference expenses. She says, inter alia, “The news of this contribution will be received with the greatest delight by all the members of the Council of the Association, not only because it will greatly facilitate the preparations for the Conference, but no less because it Is an indication of the contribution which your Government expects this Conference to make to the cause of International Peace m whose interests it will assemble. It is our faith that this association has already brought many of the women, at least, of the Pacific area into closer understanding and friendship, and that this approaching Conference will be, in aJI likelihood, the most important that has so far been convened.” Dean Bollert speaks very appreciatively of the contribution made by the New Zealand Delegates to former Conferences, and concludes by expressing Ihe pleasure of delegates at the prospect of being in New Zealand during its Centennial celebrations. The programme for the Conference, which is to be hold at Wellington from January 11 to 26, 1940, is now in circulation, and New Zealand ticket holders may obtain tickets, which include the enamel badge, in which the name may be inserted, from New Zealand officials, up to {September 30, 1939. The New Zealand delegation will he accommodated at Wallis House, Lower Hutt, and are expected to be in residence by January 4, 1940, for final discussions and other preparatory business. Overseas Speakers Available Certain towns, such as Palmerston North, Napier, Blenheim, Nelson and Christchurch are within easy flying distance of Wellington. Other towns, such as Masterton and Wanganui are within reasonable distance by car. if invitations were received from any such towns, for two or three overseas delegates to speak at a public meeting, it could probably be arranged on one of the free afternoons or evenings during the Conference. Expenses would need to be met, of co ( urse, and hospitality provided. Very interesting letters continue to arrive from overseas. One of these, written from Seoul, Corea, by Mrs Induk Pak, gives interesting information about the Suunydale Rural Project, of which she was the originator. “To the young people,” she says, “it is going to be a learning place, to the children a playground, and to the old a resting place.” In connection with the project, there is a C.C.C. or Cow Co-operative Company. The farmers use cows and oxen as beasts of burden ..s well as for ploughing. The poorer farmers cannot afford to buy even one cow', so the C.C.C. buys them and rents them on reasonable terms to the needy families.