WOMEN'S INSTITUTES

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 23, 27 July 1933, Page 13

WOMEN'S INSTITUTES

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

CHBISTCHURCH, This Day. By an overwhelming majority the annual conference of the Dominion Federation of Women's Institutes defeated a remit from New Lynn urging that a recommendation be made to the Unemployment Board that married men working on relief be not separated from their wives and families unless they are willing to go into camp. A. delegate declared that it was n woman's duty to stand by not only her husband, but also tho institute and tho Government. "If the institutes and the Government find that camps are the only way to give our husbands work, then my husband shall go," she continued, adding that her husband was appyhig for relief after losing everything.

After a ballot, Mrs. IF. Patcrson, of Pahiatua, was elected first president of tho Dominion Federation. Sho has been a member for seven years. Although tho question of birth control appeared on the agenda, tho conference by a large majority decided not to discuss it, the chairman saying that it led to sectarian controversy. A suggestion from Whitianga that institutes should investigate the history of their own districts with a view to the publication of a series of pioneer tales was warmly approved.

At the summer exhibition of the Koyal Society of British Artists, now concluding at its London galleries', Mr. 11. Linlcy Richardson is exhibiting two paintings in oil: a portrait of nn old -woman and a painting of a Maori chieftainess.