HOUSEWIVES’ UNION

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26868, 22 October 1952, Page 2

HOUSEWIVES’ UNION

ANNUAL MEETING HELD Members of the Canterbury Housewives Union whq attended the annual general meeting endorsed the union’s plans for the next 12 months. These i a l? S x delude factory gate meetings, leaflet drives, and other means of giving information on the union’s fight, for better and cheaper living conditions to working women and the wives of working men. The annual report of the union said that during the last year, the union had busied itself in many directions to try to improve the standard of living for women. Miss Mabel Howard, M.P., had presented a petition on the union’s behalf to Parliament during the 1951 session. Protests had been made on the “flood of pernicious literature which has invaded the country, on the waste of valuable foodsuffs in New Zealand, and against bacteriological warfare,” the report said. Another sphere of activity had been the formation of a sponsoring committee for an emergency day nursery scheme. Officers were elected as follows: president, Mrs J. Ryan: vice-presi-dents, Mrs E. Kane and Mrs M. Ostler; secretary, Mrs Wallace; treasurer, Mrs M. E. Furey; magazine editor, Mrs C. Beardsley. '