LUNCHEON ACTIVITY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 5, 6 July 1939, Page 18

LUNCHEON ACTIVITY

Y.W.C.A. WOMEN'S CLUB

The lecture-room at the Y.W.C.A. yesterday was very inviting with its glowing fire and orange Iceland poppies when contrasted with the bitter southerly weather outside. The occasion was the bi-monthly luncheon of the Business and Professional Women's Club.

The president,. Miss M. L. Toulson, was in the chair, and welcomed guests and members. Before introducing the speaker for the luncheon, a presentation was made to Miss Vera Wallis, a club member, who is leaving for England to be married. Miss Wallis has held the office of treasurer for the past year and hopes to retain her interest in the club on her return to New Zealand in about eight months' time. While abroad, Miss Wallis will have the opportunity of personally linking up with the two international connections of the club, the World Y.W.C.A. at Geneva and the London club of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women.

Mrs...M. H. Chatfield, M.8.E., was the limche.on :speakeß| and was introduced by the president, who sppke of Mrs/ Chatfield's wide and sympathetic experience with women's organisations in New Zealand, and of her gre^tp interest in.Jhe affairs of women. :^rs. Chatfield made an earnest appeal "to the club, as a body of older and more thoughtful women, to realise their responsibility towards others and in particular the younger women of today. As an organised and strongly numerical group, Mrs. Chatfield felt that the Business and Professional Women's Club could be a definite power in women's interests. The fact that the Federation of all Y.W.C.A. Business and Professional Women's Clubs : had just been accomplished was a I strengthening of their common initerests. '

Mrs. Chatfield was thanked for her thoughtful and inspiring talk by Miss Wallis. Apologies were read from Miss Mary Seaton, Miss McAndrew, Miss Denton, Miss Kerry, and Miss Bridgman.

The annual dance of the Mothers' Club of the Petone Free Kindergarten will be held shortly in the social hall of the Petone Working Men's Club. Arrangements have been made for an excellent orchestra and novelty dances, and, as usual, a delicious supper will be served. Particulars are advertised today.