UNIVERSITY WOMEN CONFER

Evening Star, Issue 21013, 29 January 1932, Page 2

UNIVERSITY WOMEN CONFER

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL INTERESTS [Peis United Press Association.! CHRISTCHURCH, January 28. Tho conference of university women was continued to-day. Correspondence was dealt with, including notification concerning tho Bryn Mawr Scholarships, being scholarships of 1,000 dollars each, offered by the Bryn Mawr College to foreign women who wish to pursue advanced work in America, and who have had already three or four years of university training. Miss E. M. North, who is touring abroad, wrote of the hospitality received at Crosby Hall and the friendliness with which she was received by the university federations in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, and Rome. hollowing a discussion on disarmament tho following motion was carried: “ This conference desires to express its earnest wish for the success of the Disarmament Conference, and that the ecretary be instructed to send a cable to the secretary at Geneva embodying this motion.” Alterations in the constitution were discussed, as were ways and means of raising the necessary £2,000 for a fellowship fund within the next five years. In the afternoon the delegates were entertained at a garden party. In tho evening addresses were given by Miss Sims and Mrs Taylor. Miss Sims dealt with tho Pan-Pacific Association. She described its aims and gave a full description of tho proposed programme and the work to bo undertaken for the next conference. She also spoke of tho desirability of trying to arrange that the next conference should be hgld in Auckland. Mrs Taylor gave an address on the nationality of married women, pointing out the disabilities under which a married woman labours when she marries a man of another nationality. The struggle of women for many years past to remedy this condition of affairs was outlined.