EMPIRE EXHIBITION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22960, 11 February 1938, Page 4

EMPIRE EXHIBITION

WOMEN'S WORK FEATURED During the coming year women will play a big part in the British Empire Exhibition, which is to be held at Glasgow. Plans for it are already well under way, states an overseas writer. The Countess of Elgin is convener of tho women's committee responsible for the women's section, and at a recent jpeeting at her London hoine told her guests some of the details which had already been settled. Tho Women of the Empire pavilion will be one of the features of the exhibition, and it has been designed by a woman architect. Miss Margaret Brodie. It is divided into four sections, the Empire section, the commercial and cultural section, and a social section, where there will be a theatre and a tearoom, as well as a reception room for distinguished overseas guests. Countrywomen's associations throughout the Empire are sending examples of their* work, to be arranged in the big hall, and the National Council of Women will stage an exhibition of work done by women in professions and trades. . .

' The AVomen's Electrical Association is contributing a miniature village, with a waterfall operating an electric power station that lights all the houses and works a model laundry; the Women's Gas Council is planning _ a modern kitchen, while a farmhouse kitchen is to be organised by the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes. Tho National Federation of Women's Institutes is, of course, playing an important part, and some of' the loveliest work of the Royal School of Art Needlework will be on view in tho commercial section.