PACIFIC PEOPLES

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 126, 30 May 1928, Page 15

PACIFIC PEOPLES

WOMEN'S COUNCIL MR. COATES'S MESSAGE There are to be two notable events at Honolulu in August—the Women's Pan-Pacific Conference and the Captain Cook memorial ceremonies. Invitations have been sent by the" American Government to each of the States bordering on the Pacific to appoint delegates to tho Pan-Pacific. Women's Conference. The meeting is being called for the purpose of bringing together women from countries round the Pacific to discuss subjects of particular interest to them. The programme includes sections on health, education, women in industry, women in government, and social service. Miss Jane Addams, of America, who for many years past has taken a leading part in philanthropic movements in that country and in Canada, will preside at the conference. In addition to representatives from the United States, delegates will attend ■ from Canada, Japan, China, Siam, India, Australia, and Now Zealand. The twenty-five voting delegates from the United States are being chosen by an international committee in Hawaii representing the five sections of tho programme, each section head choosing five outstanding women in her line of work. Each of the twenty-five voting delegates receives a formal invitation from the Hon. Wallace E. JParrington, Governor of Hawaii, who is also president of the Pan-Pacific Union. Seven members of the Japanese delegation have been selected oy the special committee, headed by Madame Hideko Inouye, instructor of the Meijiro Women's College, as chairman. They are Madame. Inouye, Dr. Yayoi Poshioka, famous woman physician of Japan and head of the Yoshioka Hospital; Motoko Hani, editor of the "PujinnoTomo," a national women's magazine; Takiko Fujita, instructor of an English seminary; Bumie Oe, Takeko Otawa, Toyoko Puruya, of Nagoya, and Kikue Ide, of Osaka. Two more delegates have yet to be selected.. Dr. Ada Paterson, Director of the School Hygiene Division, New Zealand Department of Health, has been appointed chairman of one of , the sections of the conference, but it is not certain whether her official duties will enable her to attend. In a letter to the Governor of Hawaii, the Eight Hon. J. G. Coates, Prime Minister, who is an honorary president of the Pan-Pacific Union, says: "On behalf of the people of New Zealand, I desire to extend, our sincere wishes for the success of the conference. May I commend the ideals expressed at a Pan-Pacific 'luncheon by my late distinguished predecessor, Mr. Massey, who said: 'It doesn't matter whether we are under one flag or Government, we are here in the Pacific, and we must do the best for the Pacific.' In view of the numerous countries to be represented and the importance of the 'problems relating to health, education, industry, government, and social service, which are ,to be discussed,'; such a conference must be beneficial not only in spreading knowledge, but in fosteriDg that spirit, of mutual sympathy and goodwill so essential to the welfare of the peoples of the- Pacific. The contribution already made by the work of New Zealand women towards the social progress of their own country, inspires us with confidence that tho results of the conference will promote in a practical manner the happiness and welfare of the peoples in the Pacific."