TOWN PLANNING CONFERENCE.

White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 289, 18 July 1919, Page 5

TOWN PLANNING CONFERENCE.

Ibis Conference met in Wellington. It was a very large Conference, brimful of interest the whole week of sitting. Mrs W. R. Don read a paper prepared by Mrs Jessie Field, of Ncl>c»ii, who favoured the establishment of public recreation grounds as public peace memorials, the funds to be provided by the local bodies, with perhaps State and private help. Mrs T. E. Taylor spoke of matters of interest to women and children. It was not realised as it should be how ditto alt it was for any woman to do what was expected of her as a wife and mother under modern conditions. The community itself, if it valued its existence, must come to the assistance of the mother. In the discussion on ill is paper, one energetic lady rose to deplore the “spoon feeding” that women just now were asking fo . “A good range, a galvanised iron tub in from of it to bath her children in, such a s one’s mother had before us, and what more could one want ?” Needless to s,i\, most of the- women present had other views on the waste of time and energy in filling and emptying a tub when hot water can be procured so easily in the bath-rooms of to-day. Among the* many committees set up was one which consists of all the women delegates to the Conference, who are to consider women’s and children’s welfare in relation to townplanning. Mrs Corliss, President ot the M.N.R., was appointed convener, and the matter was discussed at a meeting held after the day’s session. A sub-committee of six, with Mrs Baume as Chairwoman, was appointed. \lo>t of those present felt that the subject was so big and far-reaching tint it might well occupy a whole Conference itself.