WOMEN'S DIVISION

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 14, 16 July 1937, Page 14

WOMEN'S DIVISION

REMITS CARRIED

The conference of the Women's Division of the Farmers Union was continued at St. Francis Hall yesterday.: !, The Dominion Book Club,, re-estab-lished in Te Kuiti for the past fewyears, reported that there were 104 members to whom books were posted. The following remits were passed:— That the Government be approached with a view to having country girls taught domestic science on the same lines as town girls.—:(Otago.) That the present policy, requiring almost a unanimous vote of parents before a school can be consolidated is wrong, and should be altered to a bare majority principle.—(Mid-Canter-bury.) That either the. Department of Education or the' Department of Agriculture should give financial assistance to farmers' sons, especially members of Young Farmers' Clubs, to take the degree and diploma courses at Lincoln and Massey . Colleges.—(Mid-Canter-bury.) . That the. notice of. the Minister of Justice be drawn to the publication of all the unsavoury details in sexual and allied cases, even when it is considered, necessary to clear the courts While recognising .the fact that there should be publication of the names of the principal offenders, in the interest of public morals, only a broad outline of the evidence should be published. The conference Urges the Prime Minister'to put into offect the provisions of the Mental Defectives Amendment Act relative to .the segregation of imbeciles,, mentally weak and unfit when medical-opinion considers their unrestrained presence abroad a danger to the public, ' ■ . ' That the attention of the' Government be called to the fact.that New Zealand lags behind other countries in the employment of trained qualified psychologists; that New Zealand men who have qualified have to go abroad to find-recognition; that recent investigations into the problem of abortion suggest, that the services of psychologists might be valuable in this connection; that the Departments of Health, Mental Hospitals, Education Child Welfare, and Prisons might well be strengthened and brought into line with those of other countries by the appointment of such men and women. —(South Auckland.) A large number of. remits bearing on the' Prohibition question are to be sent on to the W.C.T.U. to be.dealt with, with the assurance of the full support of the division. The Dominion vice-presidents elected were: _ North Island: Mrs. T. B. Barrer. MA- (Wairarapa), Mrs.. Noel Adams (Waitemata), Mrs. J. C. Wickham (Wanganui). ' South Island: Mrs. W. H. Ward (Southland), Mrs. A. Forsyth (Nelson), and. Mrs. H.. A. Nutt (Canterbury). ... . ..•'.- Mrs. C. C; Jackson (Wairarapa) was re-elected Dominion treasurer. The advisory board was elected as follows:—North • Island: - Mrs. . .Lane (North Auckland), Mrs. Ryburn (South Auckland), Mrs. D. Simpson (Wellington, Central). South Island:' Mrs. B. E. Evans (Timaru), Mrs. C. Mclntosh (Canterbury), and Mrs. W. , Elliot (Otago). ' - : ' ; '"■The Mayor of Masterton (Mr, Jordan) has given a donation to the division to further the work among the Maori race. , ■