Club Lights Candles

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31306, 28 February 1967, Page 2

Club Lights Candles

With President Johnson’s wife giving encouragement and with Congress passing beautification bills garden clubs in America were “forging ahead” with civic development, said Mrs J. W. Gearhart, of Montclair, New Jersey. One candle was lit to represent each federated country, the founder club (in the United States), the interna-

tional federation and the future. The challenge of a changing world in employment is the theme which will be discussed by business and professional women’s clubs around the world. In her message to the Christchurch club, the president of the New Zealand federation, Miss P. L. Gapper, said this subject raised many challenges for society and for women in particular. She proposed that business and professional women in ‘New Zealand study the short-

age of labour, automation, part-time work and the role of women. Miss Gapper said both employers and part-time workers must be persuaded to adopt a more flexible attitude toward staggered hours of work and conditions of employment Miss Gapper said employers should experiment to give women a chance to prove themselves and to face the challenges of employment in a changing world in a spirit of exploration and co-opera-tion.