WOMAN’S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 214, 4 June 1924, Page 2

WOMAN’S WORLD

MATTERS ..OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR,

(By

Imogen.)

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Miss Muriel Little lias returned to Wellington from Christchurch.

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Baxter (Christchurch) left by the Arawa for England.

Mr. Edward M. Theomin, managing director of Glendermid Ltd., Dunedin, and Mrs. Theomin were passengers by the Arawa for England.

Mr. Justice Reed and Mrs. Reed have been spending a few days in Christchurch on their return from the south.

Mr. and Mts. GVorge Daysh, of Martinborough, are visiting Wellington, and aro guests of Mrs. Kose, Vivian Street.

Miss D. K. Richmond is visiting Christchurch, and was among the guests at a gathering of the Art society.

Dr. Lillian Storms and Miss McGill will be the guests of the Pioneer Club at a reception to be hold in the club this afternoon. The notice is short, but it is hoped thnt in spite of it members will bo able -to attend and meet these interesting visitors.

The news that three women have been elected as members of. the parish council of Holy Trinity Church, Wentworth Falls (N.S.W.), excites a new interest in what is described as the position of women in the Church, states a writer in the “Melbourne Argus.” On the other side of the world, in Great Britain and America, women have got further than church councils. They have, in some instances, been accepted as ordained ministers, notabl.v in the Congregational and Unitarian Churches. The only ordained woman minister who has visited Australia is the Rev. Rosalind Lee, who more than a year ago spent six months here attached to the Unitarian Church. She was making a tour of the world, and everywhere apparently left an excellent impression not only by her personality, but of her powers. The Congregational Church in England is now accepting women candidates for scholarships at its training colleges, a fact which is likely to increase the number of women candidates for the ministry. Hitherto women candidates for the ministry have had to undertake the entire cost of their training. But women have had a much wider chance given them in the Unitarian Church. In England there aro at the present time several women who have charge of important parishes. One is the Rev. A. Donkin, of Manchester, and the other the Rev. Rosalind Lee. whoso present charge is a.t Leicester. Inquiries on the subject elicited the. information that there are in America more than 14 women in charge of churches in the Unitarian ministry, one of them, the Rev v . Mrs. A. B. Blackwood, D-D., having been ordained so long ago. as 1853. Her present charge is in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where she has been since 1903. In several dioceses of the Church of England in Great Britain women aro welcomed as speakers, or “messengers,” some being invited to speak from the middle or the nave, some being provided tvilh a special reading desk, and others being permitted to use the pulpit. Miss Maude Royden is well established as assistant preacher at tho City Temple. Dr. Lillian B. Storms and, Miss Gladys McGill, who arrived in New Zealand by tho Makura from the United States last week, were passengers by the Main Trunk express for Wellington yesterday en route for Dunedin to take up appointments on tho teaching staff or the Homo Science School of Otago University. Dr. Storms is a graduate of lowa State School and a Doctor of Philosophy of Columbia University (New York), and Miss McGill is a native of Georgia and a graduate pf Columbia UniversThe following reSolutions brought forward by the sub-committee of the National Council of Women (Wellington branch) set up to go into the matter of maternal mbrtality were adopto.l by the branch at their meeting last night:—“That members of the Wellington branch of the National Council of Women desire to place on record their deep sympathy with tho relatives of the victims in the recent Kelvin Maternity Hospital case, and earnestly trust that no such abnormal series of tragic deaths of mothers will occur again in New Zealand. This committee also places on record its appreciation of the fine public spirit shown by Mrs. Rhodes in nutting aside her personal grief in the loss. of her daughter and forcing a public inquiry regarding maternal mortality in New Zealand with special reference to the Kelvin Hospital cases. The committee is strqngly of opinion that such action by Mrs. Rhodes will be of great and lasting benefit to expectant mothers in this country, and recommends that a letter conveying this recognition and the sincere sympathy of fhe Wellington branch be sent to Mrs. Rhodes.

A milliner before the war,' Miss Florence Swann, of 54 Pomeroy Street, New Cross, S.E., now manages her father’s wheelwright and engineer’s business. She is 25. Her daily duties include starting a gas engine, welding, soldering, painting, bookkeeping, supervising the four other hands, and, now the blacksmith is ill, carrying on his work at the anvil. “I can still make a hat with anybody,” Miss Swann told a “Daily Mail” reporter, “and I trim hats for many of my friends at odd moments between repairing tho motor-van and watching my switchboard.”' In a laboratory at the London Hospital are being grown on wet flannel in an effort to make insulin—the remedy for diabetes—from vegetables. Insulin has been found in several vegetables in small quantities, and it is hoped that it may some day be produced cheaply ■ from vegetables instead of tho expensive pancreas of animals. “We are working curative wonders here,’’ said Mr. E. W. Morris, the house governor. “Diabetic patients are brought in so ill that they have to be carried on a stretcher. In a short time they aro walking in the garden quite restored. All over the world scientists are working to discover a cheap source of insulin.” Tho pancreas of the ox, calf, and sheep aro being used at present, and experiments are being made with the pancreas of the horse and pig.

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NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN The monthly meeting of the Wellington branch of the National Council of Women was held last evening, and was presided over by Miss Kane. A letter was received from the Women’s Study Circle expressing the desire to affiliate. A reply was received from the acting_ secretary of tho I ost and Telegraph Department in answer to one from the council, setting forth the conditions of work and rates of pay of women employees, also the opportunities for promotion that lav. before them. The letter also explained the reasons whv the Department acted upon the principle of differentiation or pay between its men and women employees. Discussion of the letter was held over for the time being owing to the consideration of remits which lav before the meeting. A letter was received from the Dominion president, Mrs. Carmalt Jones (Dunedin) with regard to a deputation to wait upon the Government with reference to the recommendations upon maternal mortality, arrangements for which waited further word from branches. It was reported that Miss S. E. Jackson (Auckland) had been appointed international corresponding secretary tor the council in the place of Miss Melville, who had left for an overseas visit. A letter was received from the Dominion president with regard to the giving of evidence* before the Special Commission dealing with the feebleminded and with sexual perverts In this connection a letter was read from the Society for the Protection of Women and Children in which the views of this society, which dealt with many social problems, were expressed. The council endorsed the letter, and expressed its agreement with certain statements of Professor Tennant. Some time was taken up in dealing with proposed amendments to the constitution, which were endorsed by the meeting, after which tne following remits were approved of: — That, the council protests against the introduction of sex differentiation in, the salaries of men and women employed in the Education and other Departments of the Civil Service; that women should not be deprived by sex or marriage from holding any civil, judicial, or political positions; that the Government be urged to proceed forthwith with the provision of further accommodation in mental hospitals s° that a better classification of cases could be carried out; that the Government be asked to appoint further women patrols in the interests of young people and children; that as the Government has wisely provided for the the censorship of moving pictures, that it go a step further and censor the sensational posters that frequently disgrace the street hoardings and which must have an injurious effect upon children ; that the National Council deplores the modern tendency to bring very young children forward on the concert platform and stage as having a bad effect upon the children both physically and mentally; that the council urges the Government to pass a Nurses Superannuation Act during the coming session; that the Women’s Social Service Guild urges the. Government when setting up advisor}’ boards and commissions not to’ so frequently reappoint the same men, in order that a greater efficiency and a wider outlook might be secured.

A resolution passed by the Auckland branch of the National Council of Women at the annual meeting held last week ' was to the effect, “that necessary bacteriological examinations in maternity cases be made free by the Government.” The branch also parsed another resolution congratulating the Director-General of Health on the proposal to give each of tho four cities of the Dominion a medical man on the appointment of a committee to conduct a much-needed inquiry into the question of the care and treatment of the feeble-minded and of the sexual perverts in New Zealand.

At the meeting of the Wellington branch of the National Council of Women, reference was made to the refusal of the Auckland City Council to grant a license to a girl bus conductor on account of her sex. The meeting considered that this was an unwarrantable interference with the rights'' of the individual, and it was pointed out that during the w’ar the services of women both as drivers and conductors were gladlv availed of, and were found most efficient.. It. was further pointed out at tho meeting that the girl had been recommended by her medical adviser to give up teaching on account of her health, and take up open-air work. It was decided that the Auckland branch be communicated with on the subject.

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