CHILD WELFARE

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 221, 14 August 1930, Page 7

CHILD WELFARE

CONFERENCE- AT HONOLULU. PROGRESS REPORTS. ADDRESSES BY EXPERTS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received August 14, 10.5 a.m. HONOLULU Aug. 13. Dr Louise Stanley, Chief of the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agriculture, Washington, and Miss Burleigh, head of the Child Guidance Clinic, Los Angeles, were speakers at a public session of the Women’s Pan-Pacific Conference last evening. Dr Stanley described the organisation of the great conference on child welfare, which will be held in November at White House, Washington. A committee of experts had been invited by President Hoover to make plans for the conference. They had formed many committees and sub-committees of specialists in every branch of the subject. Miss Burleigh’s subject was mental hygiene, with special reference to the work done in child guidance. Miss Burleigh will leave Honolulu to-mor-row. She lent assistance to-day at the social service and health sections, discussing the subject of child guidance. Progress reports from all sections were received in the forum to-day. This afternoon an inspection was made of the Palama Hospital extension and the Salvation Army Girls’ Home, where an attractive tearoom, run on Australian lines, affords girls training as cooks and waitresses. PRESENTATION OF FLAG. A picturesque incident of the conference was the presentation to the director of the Pan-Pacific Institute of a silken Australian flag, the director having expressed a desire on the occasion of the last women’s conference for such a flag. Lady Hordern .provided one, and Lady Game, wife of the Governor of New South Wales, handed it to the delegation before they left Australia.