HUTT VALLEY NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 115, 18 May 1938, Page 18

HUTT VALLEY NEWS

TOWNSWOMEN'S GUILD

(From "The Post's" Representative.) Quoting the statement that "It is the j duty of any free country that wishes for peace and the reign of law to strive its utmost to rescue mankind from tms impending and steadily-approaching catastrophe," Mrs. K. P. Graham, president of the National Council of Women, addressed the Lower Hutt branch or the Townswomen's Guild yesterday afternoon on "The Causes of War." Most people, said Mrs. Graham, were too busy in their daily work to spend time in thinking of war. To pass, resolutions against it was of little avail; it was necessary to get further down and study the root causes. II they analysed peace to indicate the causes of war they found its attributes were security, contentment, and tranquillity. Cessation of military hostilities was not peace. In war they had the opposite,

insecurity, discontent, and disharmony, i In trying to And out what caused those and remove the cause one went a long way towards peace. A contented people had nothing to fight about, and though we were better off than ever before in Zs, the richest period of the word with its scientific progress, no one could be satisfied when economically insecure. Manufacturers could not sell

all the goods they could Pf«w°ew their own country or in any other part of the world. Comparing Japan, which had recently become a great manufacturing country, with England, which did the same a hundred years ago fee speaker said that England was the more fortunate as, at that time, she had almost unrestricted the world, while Japan, at this later period, was unable to sell her maxiS production, either at home .or Abroad This fact in conjunction wrth

her shortage of raw materials; causea her to look around and attack as a source from which to obtain her materials and as a market lor her JoS. A similar policy of expansion was at work in both Italy and Germany, where the present stretching-out tothefederation of Central European Sates to the Ukraine in Eussia was a Suation of the 6 by Bismarck. Durmg the toeatjm interchange of goods by manufacturing countries; stopped, ttierefore the smaller nations had to for themselves, ■ largely self-supportmg. Now Srifl Sers blocked from peaceful trading and what markets ?hey could not obtain by peacefu

means they tried to get by force 01 SSr Thus re-armament becomes a SX" necessity in the case-.of nearly evS country. Governments and manufacturers had to welcome tfau. as a way of escape from trouble. Huge members of men were taken on lor munitions more money was paid out SSatei, and a temporary prosensued; £2,400,000,000 was put ?nto circulation through re-armament ht rnronean nations last year. The only way to remove the causes which rnoduce war was so to manage our duced so thaUhe price-level was main tained. Trade was earned on as a fr endy interchange of goodsi a united and prosperous people making for a united and prosperous world. Trade rivalrv lack of markets, lack 01 raw Srials and the artificial cornering Tgoods were all by man and could be unmade by man. Mrs Graham urged women as proved economists to shoulder the responsibiV ftv of nroving that war could be done a W ay wUh first by studying and un-l Sanding the causes at its; root and «,«, hv massing legislation that wouia

success of hek gislation to be measured by the touchstone of economic security. A hearty vote of thanks to the speaker moved by Mrs. *•*»*** vjU carried with acclamation. W I decided to adopt the suggestion of the national executive of.the, Snlomen-s Guilds that the Lwer Hutt branch should, with the omer hranches hold its annual general meetuigTn Ma?ch, and it was unanimously Irefolved that the present committee be asked to continue m office for tne SterSng period. The —gee is

as follows:-President, w~ ; Moran; secretary, Mrs. C. D. Bryson. reasurer, Mrs, W.Benstead- committee Mesdames G. Nicholson. J. Futter. K A?ert„'e C ter"terval a clever demonstrat on in the art of make-up, Sven by Miss P- M. Dwelly, was folfowed with interest and received with applausl Shoulder sprays, were presented to Mrs. Graham, Miss Dwelly and to Mrs. D. Wedekind who sang charmingly and was accompanied by Mrs. M. Tunley.

Horticultural Society. At the meeting of the Hutt Valley Horticultural Society's Garden Circle, held to the Horticultural Hall on Monday night, Mr. W. H. Wilson spoke to a largf attendance on "New Zealand Berrying Plants." Of these he said twoorosma was the best known and ne S easny cultivated and although some did not grow naturally in the Wellington district, all could be introduced and throve here with a little shelter. Mr. Wilson showed and commented on the beauties of about tS varieties now in berry which, he said, were well worth growing in the home garden and with little atr tention would do well. Mr Wm. Smith, who presided, announced that the annual meeting would be held in June, and Mr. 1. Cook would deliver an address on "Hydrangeas." A letter received from the founder of the circle, Mrs. A. Gower, who is at present visiting Java, was read, and gave a vivid description of the beautiful tropical foliage and plants there.

Miss Marjorie Pollard, formerly captain of the English women s cricket team and an English hockey international, has been appointed national organiser to the Women's Team Games Board, states the "Sydney Morning Herald's" London correspondent A grant has been made by the National Fitness Council, and Miss Pollards chief concern will be with hockey, lacrosse, cricket, and netball. The post is a full-time one, and she will travel all over the country organising the games.