NATIONAL COUNCIL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 48, 26 February 1935, Page 10

NATIONAL COUNCIL.

BUSH PRESERVATION. REQUEST TO GOVERNMENT. There was a. particularly large attendance at the first meeting for the year of the Auckland branch of the National Council of Women, held in the council rooms last evening. The president, Mrs. Hugh Kasper, presided. Mrs. Rasper referred to pome statements that had been made, to the effect that the council was interested in party politics. This she strongly denied, and she asked members to do all they could to combat the circulation of such remarks. The correspondence included a request from the New Women's Club, asking for affiliation with the council. Another delegate from the Women's Institute I was also appointed. The matter of back-dated American magazines being brought into New Zealand at cheap ratea was again brought up, and the council was urged again to object to their circulation. The secrei tary reported that the. matter had been forwarded to Parliament. Two notices of motion were received from the Auckland District Federation of Women's Institutes. The first stated that to allow private concerns to manufacture arms, ammunition and poison gas was detrimental to world peace, and urged the women of New Zealand to initiate a world-wide campaign against the practice. The second notice of motion asked the council to endorse the, principle of endowment of motherhood, and organise an insistent demand for it. A matter which was treated as urgent concerned the preservation of natural bush on Waiheke Island. Mrs. Ruby Watson said that the last piece of natural bush on the island, at Onetangi, was now threatened. There were now only 40 acres of this bush, and she asked that a resolution be sent to the Government, requesting it to buy the area and form a reserve for the people. The resolution was unanimously carried. It was asserted that tho wood in various places at the Auckland railway station is riddled with borer, and the meeting decided to draw the attention of local members of Parliament to the matter. Reports from the health committee and the committee dealing with the | Borstal system, were received, and stated that investigation was in progress. Nominations to the associate branch included Miss Bentham, Mrs. Moses, Mrs. Alan Jones and Miss Hagan.