PACIFIC WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27112, 7 August 1953, Page 2

PACIFIC WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION

READING FOR MANILA CONFERENCE

The international programme committee of the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association has compiled a reading list of books suitable to help members gain a background knowledge on the Manila conference study topic, which is “Economic Interdependence.” Mr R. N. O’Reilly, the Christchurch City Librarian, has kindly co-operated and has furnished the local branch with a list of books on the Christchurch Library shelves, available from now till October 8.

Mr O’Reilly, in a letter to the branch, says: “In circularising your membership would you please stress this library is free as far as a service of serious and informational reading is concerned. The books, of course, will also be available to our regular borrowers. However, since the field is specialised, the general interest will be limited and your members will find little difficulty in obtaining what they require. They may, of course, specifically reserve the titles they want.” The list supplied by Mr O’Reilly contains the names of about 50 volumes dealing with a great variety of subjects, including economic surveys of the Pacific area, of Asia and the Far East and of Ceylon, agricultural questions in Malaya, the culture of Korea, strategy in Singapore and Australian native policy.