UNIVERSITY WOMEN

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28801, 23 January 1959, Page 2

UNIVERSITY WOMEN

Membership Grows

Since the New Zealand Federation of University Women met for conference three years ago, four new branches have been formed. They are the South Canterbury, Manawatu, Northland, and Lower Hutt branches. Since 1956, total membership has increased from 1041 to 1184, according to a report from the Dominion secretary (Mr P. D. Shea). The federation is affiliated with the Pan Pacific and South-East Asian Women’s Association, the National Council of Women, C.0.R.5.0, and the U.N.E.S.C.O. Commission.

“New Zealand women graduates have won several distinctions in the last three years,” the report says. Dr. Joan Metge, the New Zealand federation’s fellow for 1956-57, was awarded a Winifred Cullis grant while studying in London. Since her return, after gaining her doctorate, she has been awarded a Carnegie Social Science Research Fellowship for one year to continue her work.

Miss Kitty Paviour-Smith, who won the Ada Smedley Maclean International Fellowship, has taken up an appointment with the Bureau of Animal Population at Oxford and has postponed her return to New Zealand indefinitely. Miss Beverley Holloway, who was second on the list for the Ada Smedley Maclean International Fellowship, won the A.A.U.W. Helen Marr Kirkby Scholarship last year. Miss Noreen Murray, the New Zealand federation’s 1958-1959 fellow, has been awarded an A.A.U.W. grant to assist her study at Columbia University.