LEADERS CONFER

Evening Star, Issue 22718, 4 August 1937, Page 14

LEADERS CONFER

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S WEEK Women from nearly every country in the Empire, including New Zealand, will travel to Budapest during this week for the Women’s International Week an annual conference of the world’s women leaders. Altogether there will be a thousand delegates at the conference. Of these, 200 will be from the British Empire, 200 from the United States, and 30 from Egypt. The hon. president of the conference will be the Archduchess Magdalen, a relative of the Archduke Franz Josef of Hungary. For the Empire delegates, the conference is-to form part of a “Grand Tour’ of Europe. They left England on August 1 for Germany, where they spent a day and a-half in Nuremburg. From there they went to Prague for two days. On August 5 they will reach Budapest for the conference, which is to be held from August 5 to 12. Then, after the final session, they will go on to Vienna, Geneva, And Paris. They will return to London again on August 22. • A message to the women of all nations from Lady Astor, the first British woman member of Parliament, is being printed in the conference programme. Last year the message was from Mrs Corbett Ashby, president of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship. Outstanding among the delegates from the Empire overseas is Mrs Kidd, wife of a 'former mayor of Wellington. On her husband’s death, she shouldered sole responsibility for many charity committees as well as her own work for women’s organisations. At the conference she is to represent New Zealand.