EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 172, 22 July 1924, Page 7

EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

HOME LIFE IN DOMINIONS. COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS. NEW ZEALAND INTEREST. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright* (Kcceived 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 21. At the Wembley Exhibition, Princess Helena Victoria read a message from the Queen of Rumania assuring the deepest interest in the proceedings. The visits of tne King and herself to various parts of the Empire had enabled them to appreciate special problems of the home life of women in the Dominions, but women's responsibilities nowadays did not end in the home. It rested mainly with women to hand over to the rising generation everywhere in the Empire the fjrea'; traditions and ideals upon which a unique commonwealth of nations had boon built up, and to impress on the youth of to-day a sense of the responsibilities of citizenship in the commonwealth. The programme to-day arranged iby New Zealand consisted of a number of papers on child welfare, education, and the general progress of women in New Zealand, a concert by New Zealand artists, and a_ reception by Sir James ! Allen, at which Maori girls danced.— ! (A. and N.Z. Cable.) I Lord iJurnham, presided at the International Labour Lesislation Conference. Miss Eleanor Rathbone detailed the progress being made in Europe in the adoption system, under which employers pay fixed wages to men, supplemented by allowances per capita for children from a common fund, to which the employers compulsorily subscribe.— ("Argus.")