WOMEN'S SECTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 16

WOMEN'S SECTION.

CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. INTEREST SHOWN ABROAD. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. "Ste[)s to assemble an outstanding collection of loan exhibits of strong historical interest to New Zealand women are lieing taken by the women's section of the New Zealand Centennial "Exhibition." said Mrs. C. P. Hain*worth. wife of the general manager of the exhibition company, when interviewed to-day. Mrs. Ha ins worth is the manageress of this section of the exhibition. Mrs. Hainsworth said that an endeavour was being made to assemble a collection of articles of real interest on loan. She said that Lady Roberts, of Wellington, was in charge of the loan exhibits of this section. Rej>resentatives had been appointed in each of the four main centre* to receive the proposed exhibits, from which a selection could later be made. It was hoped also that similar articles which had already gone outr of the country might be obtained for exhibition. Mrs. Hainsworth said that it was surprising what keen interest was being taken in England in the women's section. It wu rather a surprising reflection on the ajwthy of the local jieople that keener interest had been shown by English and .Scottish jieople in th» arts and crafts section than by New Zealand women. The women's section of the exhibition will cover B<MK) square feet of floor space. A lecture hall ia to be a feature and Mrs. Hainsworth said that it was to )>e the object of the section to arrange for all distinguished women visitors to Wellington during the exhibition to give addresses on their particular subjects. Arrangements were being made to show films of child welfare and other subjects of wide interest in the main assembly hall.