OMOKOROA WOMEN'S DIVISION

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 13430, 18 April 1944, Page 7

OMOKOROA WOMEN'S DIVISION

ANNUAL MEETING HELD

ELECTION OF OFFICERS The annual meeting of the Omokoroa Branch of the Women's Division was held in Nicholas' Hall on April 12. the president. Mrs Strugnell, being in the chair. Before the meeting opened, a motion of sympathy to Mr and Mrs Kirk and family, who had recently lost a son overseas, was passed. The balance of the knitted garments for merchant seamen was made ready for dispatch to Auckland.

A strong protest was made that the name of the Women's Division of the Farmers' Union had been brought up in Parliament in connection with the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Bill, which, it was considered, was directly against the farmers' interests. Delegates were asked to bring this up at the provincial meeting. Mrs H. Nicholas won the bloom points prize for the year with Mrs Strugnell second. The president's address was comprehensive and much appreciated. On her retirement, owing to illness, Mrs Strugnell was presented with a shoulder spray with best wishes and thanks for her useful service to the division.

The election of officers resulted

President, Mrs secretary and treasurer, Mrs Foster; delegate to provincial meetings, Mrs Leverette; vice-presidents, Mrs C. Gane and Miss Anderson.

The prizes were won as follow: Bloom, Mrs Steward 1, Miss Anderson 2; jam tails, Mrs H. ..Nicholas 1, Mrs Foster 2.