NEW ZEALAND WOMEN

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 121, 24 May 1928, Page 11

NEW ZEALAND WOMEN

-MISS HOYDEN'S IMPRESSIONS (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post") AUCKLAND, This Day. "I quite understand now why there aro no women in Parliament in New Zealand. The Dominion's womanhood has greatly impressed mo since I arrived in the country, and I find that the majority not only carry out domestic duties, but have plenty of time to spare for social and other work," said Miss Maude Royden, the famous British preacher and writer, in summing up her impressions of New Zealand women in an interview. Miss Royden said that she has found the New Zealand people very like the English people. "Before coming here I spent some time in the United States, and perhaps it was the contrast," she stated. "Anyway, it was just like coming home to come to New Zealand. I really feel at home here. Your boys and girls are just a lot of healthy human beings like we havo in England." Since her arrival in the Dominion, Miss Royden has been chiefly interested in child welfare, and sho considers that wonderful strides have been made in this direction. Her chief interest centred in institutions such as tho Karitane Home and Plunket institutions, tho principles of which had not been established in England. Her genuine interest in the welfare of young people is indicated by the fact that a few years ago she adopted a baby girl whose father was killed in tho war and whose mother died soon afterwards. "When I got her frooi hospital the baby was a poor, miserable little thing,"» Miss Royden said. "She is ten. now, very healthy and very happy." .-* Miss Royden was given a civic reception yesterday