WOMEN AT VIENNA

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 221, 14 June 1930, Page 20

WOMEN AT VIENNA

VISITORS FROM NEW ZEALAND British feminists in their hundreds are gathering in Loudon before making for Vienna, where the quinquennial conference of the International Council of Women will meet on May 26, and will sit for a fortnight (says the London correspondent' of the Christchurch "Star”). Miss H. K. Lovell-Smith, Dominion secretary, who is heading the New Zealand delegation to Vienna, is now in London with her sister, and while they will attend the conference they hope to have a holiday in Europe. There are to be 250 Anj/rican women at the conference, and they intend, after the Vienna discussions, to tour Europe and make .an intensive study of child welfare, public health and education. Miss Lovell-Smith states that the New Zealand delegation as now arranged will consist of herself and her sister, Miss C. L. Lovell-Smith (Technical College, Wellington), who is a proxy delegate on the Education Committee, Miss Beardsley and Mrs. Donald Grant, who is now resident in Vienna. This fortunate circumstance will make the stay of the New Zealand delegation much more comfortable, and useful to them as delegates,' for Mrs. Grant will bo au fait with things Viennese, and smooth out the difficulties that inevitably attend a stranger in a strange land. Mrs. Grant, it will be recalled, resided for live years in New Zealand during her husband’s visit on behalf of the Christian Student movement. Miss Lovell-Smith regrets greatly the unfortunate accident which has prevented Dr. Northcroft from representing New Zealand at the conference, for she would have made an exceedingly able delegate. Miss Beardsley, who is general secretary, of the Y.W.O.A. in New Zealand, intends, after the conference is over, to spend the rest of June in Oberamraagau. She will attend the Y.W.C.A. conference at Geneva. She hopes during her stay in Europe to gain further insight intothe economic aspect of women’s interests, the question of women police and the training of children in international goodwill. Miss Eleanor Tripp and Miss Biakiston, who are so keenly interested in Women’s Institute work, will also visit Vienna as delegates from New Zealand to the Rural Conference which is to be held under the aegis of the Isle of .Wight