THE EXHIBITION

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 128, 2 June 1938, Page 18

THE EXHIBITION

QUEEN PATRONESS WOMEN'S, SECTION IMPORTANT Her Majesty the Queen has consented to be Royal Patroness of the women's section of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, according to advice received on Tuesday bj the exhibition secretary, Mr. H. E. Avery, from the Lord Galway. Lady Galway is to be patroness ,of the women's section. { The women's section of the exhibition is to be an important one. Representative'committees have been form : ed to arrange exhibits of fine arts, handicrafts, and industrial products, and to organise demonstrations and lectures from professional women on a large variety of .subjects. The fine arts division. will include etching and engravings, miniatures, modelling and statuaTy, and, photography, all, of course, the work of women artists. There will be exhibits of needlework, book-binding and leather work, handicraft in copper and brass, jewellery, and enamelling, woodcarving and inlaying, illuminating, pottery and stained glass, weaving and spinning, and designs for fabrics and textiles. Toy-making will be an interesting exhibit of feminine handiwork. Cookery, laundry, and other branches of home science, nursing and first aid and child welfare will also be sections of wide interest. There will be a special section for the country woman. The course.of lectures and demonstrations will cover medicine, science, music, drama, literature, sociology and psychology, electricity and gardening and, bee-keeping. The women's section will, in fact, cover practically every aspect of women's life in the Dominion. Space has been allotted to the New, Zealand Women's Institute and the Women's Division of the Farmers' Union.