LET'S HAVE A MEETING

Te Ao Hou, Autumn 1953, Page 49

Women's World LET'S HAVE A MEETING by BEATRICE ASHTON It is a miserable winter morning, too wet for the small children to play outside. Two women are trying to talk while their children tumble over each other on the kitchen floor. ‘Why don't we have a kindergarten for the little ones?’ ‘I don't know … we never have …’ ‘Then why not. It would be much better for them to have a proper place to play. Let's have a meeting about it …’ Women nowadays have many public responsibilities, and many of them began in just this way in someone's kitchen or backyard. One woman has a good idea, and in no time several women are meeting together to carry it out. Someone thinks the local school needs a piano; someone else wants to start a branch of the Maori Women's Welfare League; an energetic mother would like to persuade other mothers to join her in making a hot drink for the school children in the cold weather. Whatever it is, the best way to start something new—the best way to get anything done—is to have a meeting. Busy wives and mothers often find it difficult to get to meetings. When they make the effort they expect the meeting to be a good one.