VICTORIA LEAGUE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 36, 10 February 1917, Page 16

VICTORIA LEAGUE.

i RESIGNATION" Of MISS TALBOT. ] " i Miss Talbot, ths national seoretary of ( the Victoria League, whose visit, to New t Zealand in ISO 9 will be remembered with , pleasure by many members, has been , appointed to the important post of Chief i Woman Inspector of the Board of Agri- i culture by the Earl of Crawford and < Balcarres, the president of the Board, t Miss Talbot made many friends through- t ■ out the New Zealand centres. r"or fifteen years the energetic secretary exercised 1 her duties with zeal, and even now is < not entirely severing her connection, as i she has been made a consulting member i of the committee. To recount all that ■ Mias Talbot has done would be to write j the history of the "Victoria League dur- ! ing fifteen years; the correspondence i which she conducted would bear conrpari- j 1 son with that of many a Secretary of [State; "but perhaps some of the most i [striking incidents in the story of herli years of office occurred during the tours 11 which she undertook on behalf of the!" League. Miss Talbot, is the daughter of j | the Rt. Hon. John Talbot, and for years • has devoted her energies to the drawing < closer together of the bonds of Empire, i Then came the crash of war, and organ- i ised women took their .place in the ■ ranks of workers. The manhood of the i Mother Country, like the manhood of the t Dominions. was called to offer up '. strength, health, and, if need be, life, < W hen the women were summoned to take their place and to free tne men for: - service Miss Talbot's call came, for the' Board of Agriculture needed a woman of < < -capacity and personal magnetism to in-;' fluenoe other women to work on the land ' to a far greater extent than heretofore, i and to induce fanners to accept them | and to facilitate their employment. At 1 the urgent repeat of Lord Selbome the'i Victoria League lent her to the Eoard * first for six. then for three additional < months. The Board of A?riculture hns : now taken over certain work connected ' with land which had hitherto been car-,' ried on by the Board of Trade, and hns| created the new and important post of i j Chief Woman Inspector which has been ■ I offered to, and accepted by, Miss Talb .t. ; Many of those who have" met Mhss Tal- « jbot, or who hare partaken of her kind ' neas and hospitality in London, may like : I |to contribute to a small fund which is ' j being raided to fhow the appreciation of ■ the League. Donations for this purpose ' can be handed to Miss Holland, the ' local secretary, and may be as low as;' one or as high as a guinea. ' —————————— i 1