FLING AT FLAPPERS.

Grey River Argus, 23 August 1928, Page 5

FLING AT FLAPPERS.

BY N. Z. LADY DOCTOR. SYDNEY, August 19. The explanation ox the Honolulu Pan-Pacific Women’s Conte) ence“storm” inesage is that Mrs Robertson called to the *‘Sun, ” what purported to be the Teport of an indictment by Dr. Mildred Staley, the New Zealand delegate at the Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference, of the modern flapper’s moral standards. Dr. Staley, it was said, likened the so-called flappers to street womeu, and declared that they suffered no qualms of conscience over their conduct. Dr. Staley also suggested that ru« majority of gins employed in buswcsM houses were guilty of dubious conduct.

The publication' of the message in Sydney aroused a storm of protea:, and cabled inquiries to Honolulu produced to-day’s message HONOLULU, August I. The Pan-Pacific Women’s Conf exence adjourned after adopting raso lutions of a general nature in accordance with the twelve principles pr? piously announced. The Australian and Philippine delegations Resolved ,to protest against sending to their countries American cinema films depicting scenes of and crime. Miss Eleanor Hinder, Australian delegate from Shanghai, was retained as Permanent Continuation Secretary, with headquarters at Honolulu, to co-ordinate the activities of the groups in the various countries. The nexF conference wall be held it China or Japan, in 1030, most likely at Shanghai. Hume Ford said that it was the most significant and far reaching conference ever held at Hawaii. Most of the Australian and New Zealand delegates sail on August 29.