Wide Scope Of N.C.W.

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30747, 11 May 1965, Page 2

Wide Scope Of N.C.W.

The wide scope of work done by the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women is shown in a list of the year’s projects reviewed in its annual report. The report will be presented at the branch’s annual meeting next week.

Delegates sent children’s books to Southern Rhodesia, helped the Templeton Hospital and Training Centre by selling Christmas cards, helped as voluntary workers at the Calvary Hospital’s psychiatric day clinic and aided the Consumer Institute’s experiments and plans. They took part in a goodwill gesture of making and distri-

buting floral sprays during the Pan Pacific Arts Festival. To mark International Cooperation Year, a hospitality sub-committee was formed to get in touch with visitors to the city and delegates have agreed to assist, through U.N.E.5.C.0., a gift coupon scheme if this is adopted by the national executive as an effort for I.C.Y. Projects The branch has been represented on many community projects such as the Winston Churchill Memorial Fund, the Savings Week Committee and the Special Class AfterCare Society. Delegates represented the branch at community functions, including a Salvation Army women’s rally, receptions for the Archbishop of Canterbury (the Most Rev. Dr. Michael Ramsay) and for the Roman Catholic Bishop of Christchurch (the Most Rev. B. P. Ashby), and an open day at Hohepa Home. A party of delegates inspected Papa-

rua Prison and later attended a seminar there. They visited Marylands home for boys and attended a function to honour the memory of Miss Jessie McKay. Social Security “It is pleasing to note that two matters discussed at considerable length by N.C.W. delegates have now been implemented—the payment of social security benefits to mental hospital patients and the amendment of the title of benefits for their wives from ‘widow’s benefit’ to ‘special benefit,’ the report says.

Included in the review of the council’s work are reports from the associates’ group, the mother and infant homehelp subcommittee, the television, housing, education, and history of pioneer women sub-committees; and from representatives on the Special Class After-Care Society. The council has 84 delegates from 49 women’s organisations.