WOMEN’S WEEK.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 July 1924, Page 9

WOMEN’S WEEK.

WEMBLEY EXHIBITION. MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN. BY C^BLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Julv 22, 11.40 a.m. LONDON. July 21. At the opening of Women’s Week at Wembley Princess Helena Victoria read a message from the Queen assuring all of her deep interest in the proceedings. The visits of the King and herself to various parts of the Empire had enabled them to appreciate the special problems of the home life of women in the Dominions, but women’s respcnsibilties nowadays did not end in the home. It rested'mainly with the u omen .to hand over to the rising generation everywhere in the Empire the great traditions r.nd ideals upon which the unique commonwealth of nations had been built up, and to impress on the vouth of to-day a sense of responsibility of. citizenship in the Commonwealth.

The programme to-day, arranged by New Zealand, consisted of a number of papers on child welfare, education, find the general progress of women in New Zealand. A concert by New Zealand artists was given, and" a -reception bv Sir James Allen, at which Maori girls danced.—Reuter. At Wembley, Miss Eleanor Rathione detailed the progress that is being made in Europe- in the adoption of a. scheme under which employers pay fixed wages to men, supplemented by allowances per capita for children from a comman fund to which the employers compulsorily subscribe.—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn.