COUNCIL OF WOMEN
SHARE IN NATIONAL LIFE. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, April 18. The annual conference of the National Council of Women opened today. Over 30 delegates are attending. A service was first field at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, where Rev. A. C. Watson addressed the gathering. Later, the delegates were accorded a civic welcome by the Mayor (Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P.). who paid a tribute to the ideals and work of the council, and made a plea that it should play a larger part in the political and social life of the Dominion.. “Some women have done great things, hut are all of them active in backing up the leaders?” Mrs McCombs, M.P., joined in the welcome, hut said Mr Sullivan was wrong when he said women had not taken a big part in the national life. Women had already had a great influence on the legislative and social life of this country. Miss B. E. Carnahan, Dominion president of the council, responding, said her reply to the Mayor was that men had got the world into a mess and women had to try and get it straight again. “We do not want to usurp the places of the men, but we want to work in the closest co-operation. There are certain functions of government which can only be handled efficiently by women,” said Miss Carnahan.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 118, 18 April 1934, Page 2
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228COUNCIL OF WOMEN Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 118, 18 April 1934, Page 2
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