CO-OPERATE? COULD WE?

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1234, 16 September 1911, Page 11

CO-OPERATE? COULD WE?

There is about to bo started in Sydney at an early date a "Woman's Co-opera-tive Society"—a real trading businessundertaking all departments of buying and selling. Special attention (says a Sydney writer) is to be given to all sections of women's work, such as needlework, knitting, confectionery, cooking, and laundry work, jam making, pickles, sauces, poultry-growing, fruit, vegetable, and flower-growing, bee-keeping, artists' work, etc., and also in finding remunerative work for women. The project is being organised by a body of practical business women, who have a definite scheme mapped out, and are earnestly working out all the preliminaries. It is absolutely a woman's movement, entirely free from any sectional boundary, ether political, social, or religious. The promoters are receiving great encouragement, and members are being rapidly enrolled. The first section entered upon will be a residential hostel for women, with public dining and tea rooms, leisure hall, whero women may rest and meet their friends; mother's room, where they may take their children when tired; parcels' and luggage room, etc. The one difficulty seems to be to secure suitable premises in a position where a successful business can be built up, but the officers are hopeful that as the co-operation idea sproads tho society' will become firmly established, able, and self-reliant.