W.D.F.U. ACTIVITIES

Hawera Star, Volume L, 26 August 1930, Page 7

W.D.F.U. ACTIVITIES

SOUTH TARANAKI AND ELSEWHERE.

The Okinawa bra Meh ait* holding very successful meetings in private homes to cultivate closer co-operation, afternoons having been spent at Alesdames. Oklfie.lt!* and Shearer. The next meeting will be held at the residence of -Mrs* D. AI. Cameron to arrange for a social and> dance. 'Air Emmett gave a most interesting lecture on “The League of Nations” to the Marinin branch, when there were 150 present. .Lecture work is becoming a > special feiMire of this branch and is* arousing much interest and enthusiasm. The Toi Toi's branch held a good meeting in To'kanui Hall on August IS. when. Mrs Neidercr, of Invercargill, gave an interesting address, explaining the work of the Women’s Division. M.esdames Aiacintos'h, Buckingliain and Thwaites were elected as housekeeper advisories. An address' anil demonstration on rug-making by Miss? Crosbic proved most .i nte r e sting. The Dunedin* University hope to have various* lectures given in homes and to see large meetings* present. At Awaken. Miss Gaffney, matron of the Whakatanc Hospital, gave an interesting -lecture on “Home Nursing’’ to a large gathering, and was thanked by the president, Mr si Luke, and presented with a bouquet of violets 1 by Master Wallace Luxton. HOU-SEIKEiHPER' ATJXLLTA.RY.

A meeting- of the Housekeeper Auxiliary of the. Women’s Division was held in Palmerston North on* Tuesday afternoon, with Mrs C. C. Jackson, Dominion, president, in* the chair. With regard to rules applying to maternity nurses it was agreed that the old rules, with slight alterations, should be inserted* in the present book of rules. Two cases of distress* •were reported, and authority was granted for assistance to be given in each case. The president stressed the necessity in all cases for members, of the advisory board looking into the .candidion under which housekeepers would have to work. .Consideration, iwas given to the rule re travelling expenses paid by an employer in* cases where there was* no railway in the district, and it was agreed that where an* employer had no car, an allowance should bo made for the first 2*5 miles, by car. In all cases the community* chest has to make up any deficiencies in housekeeper ’g. salaries. The 'Dominion secretary reported that thirty-one housekeepers are at present employed, in the following districts: Taranaki 4, Wellington 'Central 7. Te Ivuiti 1. Tauinaranui 2, Bay of islands .1, Raetihi 1, South Auckland 3. Wairarapa 3, Southern Hawke’s Bay 1, Nelson 1. Levin 1, Waverley 1, Southland 3, Otago 1. South 'Canterbury 1. Inglewood and Ohura had each received a maternity nurse on application. Re emergency housekeepers, the following rule was agreed upon: “That where a mother was in need of help and would, be at home herself, girls under 2*'s may be employed at a remuneration of Us to 20s a week, according to their age* and ability.’’ It was* agreed that the Women’s Division housekeepers* be not sent to houses' in which there were infectious cases.