LONDON VISITOR

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 18, 22 January 1937, Page 14

LONDON VISITOR

PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION

WOMEN AND ELECTRICITY

A visitor to Auckland on Monday by the. Aorangi was Mrs. J. N. BartonScott, of London, who is oil a three months' holiday visit to New Zealand and Australia. Mrs. Barton-Scott, who last visited New Zealand five years ago, is interested in many forms of women's social work and in many organisations. Until recently Mrs. Barton-Scott was an active member of the Women's Electrical Association, which she described as one of the newest and progressive of women's organisations in England. Founded some ten years ago by Miss Caroline Hazlitt, who is the present director, the association today played an important part in improving the lot of the housewife in England, states the "'New Zealand Herald. The membership of the association now reached several thousands, while j centres had been established in every city of the United Kingdom. One of the-most important aspects of the association's work was the training of housewives in the safe use of electricity. The members received a very efficient education in the manipulation and repair of electrical appliances and every year conferences were held in different centres. Last year a show was held, in connection with the association, at Bristol, where an all-electric house, with cooking, airing, heating, and drying apparatus, all electrically controlled, was built specially for the display. "Queen Elizabeth takes a keen interest in the work and often visits the j headquarters in Dorland House, Mrs. Barton-Scott said. The Queen was so • impressed, upon a recent visit, with the electrical training provided, that she decided to send her cook to take the course. , , News of the admirable work being i done in England by clinics for the cor-1 i rection of speech was also given by 1 Mrs. Barton-Scott. The establishment • of these speech-correcting clinics was • being undertaken by the hospitals ana • board schools and opened up a new • profession for women. There was an » increasing demand for qualified^ dents from established speech training schools to work in the clinics, in conjunction with a doctor. Excellent results were being obtained in the correction of stammering and even of speech defects caused by some physical handicap such as a cleft palate.