FEDERATED CLUBS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 106, 31 October 1942, Page 10

FEDERATED CLUBS

MEETING OF COUNCIL

A meeting of the Dominion council of the Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs of the Y.W.C.A. of New Zealand was held during the Labour Day weekend. Delegates attended from the clubs at Hamilton, Napiei', Palmerston North, Wellington, and Christchurch. The affiliation of the club at Napier was received with enthusiasm. There are now eight clubs in the federation. All the clubs are at work studying social conditions and educating members for the building up of the new world after peace. The survey of the status of domestic service in. New Zealand requested by the 'British federation has been completed and copies sent out. "WOMEN FOR WESTMINSTER." The British federation is organising a "Women for Westminster Campaign," and the New Zealand federation is studying the material sent out with a view to its application in New Zealand. I From the international president in the United States,- Dr. Madesin Phillips, of New York, comes news that the subject chosen for the next international night, February 25, 1943, will be "A Just and Durable Peace." There will be a world link-up by radio from Dr. Phillips and reports from all federated countries. A fine study N on the subject was read by the Hamilton club, and will be sent to Dr. Phillips for the international night. An international afternoon was held at the home of the Dominion president, Miss M. L. Toulson. Among the guests were Mrs. Peter Fraser, Dr. Sylvia Chapman, and Mrs. F. J. Martin, president of the Wellington Y.W.C.A.