1940 EXHIBITION

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 12369, 7 June 1938, Page 1

1940 EXHIBITION

qlek.v accepts rote of koyal patroness Her Majesty the Queen has consented to be Kojal Patroness of the women’s section of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, according to advice received by the exhibition sectary, Mr H. E. Avery, from the Governor-General, Lord Galway. Lady Galway is to be patroness of j], e women’s section. The women's section of the exhibition is to an important one. Representative committees have been formed to arrange exhibits of fine ar£s> handicrafts and industrial products, and to organise demonstrations and lectures from professional women on a large variety of subjects. The fine arts division will include architecture, drawing and painting, etching and engravings, miniatures, modelling and statuary, and photography, all, of course, the work of women artists. There will he exhibits of needlework, book-binding and leather work, handicraft in copper and brass, jewellery and enamelling, wood-carving and inlaying, weaving and spinning and designs for fabrics and textiles. Toy-making will be an interesting exhibit of feminine handiwork. Cookery, ; laundry and other branches of home science, nursing and first aid and child welfare will also be sections of wide interest. There will be a special course of lectures and demonstrations will cover medicine, science, music, drama, literature, the law, accountancy and insurance, sociology and psychology, electricity and gardening and bee-keeping. The women’s section will, in fact, cover practically every aspect of women’s life in this Dominion. Space has been allotted to the New Zealand Women’s Institutes and the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union.