CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.] OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 145, 20 June 1906, Page 7

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.]

OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN.

— — ** THE COLONIES' NEEDS. A CONFERENCE IN LONDON. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] LONDON, 19th June. At tlhe instance of Lady Aberdeen (President of the Women's Liberal Federation), Mrs. James Bryce (wife of the Chief Secretary for Ireland) and other educated ladies, a conference was held in London to demonstrate the openings presented in the colonies for educated, trained women fitted to undertake the lighter kinds of agricultural work, fruit preserving and bottling, poultry and beekeeping, and dairying, or as experte in domestic work. Sir John Cockburn, who presided, stated that Canada had two hundred and eighty thousand more men than women. There was plenty of scope in Australia for women tlrained to any definite employment except clerical. Mr. B. It. Wise, formerly a Minister of the _Crown in New South Wales, said there was an enormous demand in Australia for women willing to engage in domestic or agricultural pursuits. Mr. W. J. Napier, of Auckland, New Zealand, stated that fifty-four thousand women were needed in New Zealand, where special facilities wera given associated groups of ladies qualified to engage in fruit-growing. Sir Horace Tozer, Agent-General for Queensland, declared that fruit-growing afforded profitable openings in Queensland.