WOMEN’S DIVISION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 195, 17 July 1935, Page 11

WOMEN’S DIVISION.

DOMINION SECRETARY RESIGNS. WELLINGTON, July 17. The resignation of the Dominion secretary, Aliss C. E. Connor, was received by the Dominion executive of the Women’s Division of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, last night, when the annual meeting was opened in Wellington. The action of the advisory board in accepting Aliss Connor's resignation with regret was confirmed. and the Dominion president (Airs AV. H. Ward) expressed the division’s appreciation of her services over a period of three and a half years. Tt would be impossible, said -Mrs Ward, to estimate the help Aliss Connor had given the division. Aliss Connor’s resignation, said Airs Ward, would take effect from September next.

Nearly 200 representatives were welcomed to the meeting by the Dominion president. For the finance committee Aliss Connor reported that the registrar of patents had advised that the division’s colours could not bo registered. Tt. was decided that organisers should be allowed a flat rate of 3d a mile for petrol, etc. A representative of the Pahiatua branch reported that her branch had paid for the clothes of a hoy who had been sent from Pahiatua to Flock House. The cost had been £2O, and the branch would he grateful for some relief from the executive. Tt was decided that the Dominion executive should pay half this amount, and that this boy should he regarded as the North Island’s responsibility. At the same time members from the South Island were reminded that they should select n boy from that Island in October.

It was decided to give £1 Is to the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society to add ’to the King’s Jubilee gift. It was also decided to draw at-

tcntioii to the fact that the division’s branches had already given liberally to the fund, one provincial branch having collected nearly £BO, another £3B, and a third £25. A remit from Piako that the next half-yearly Dominion executive meeting should be held at Hamilton next January was carried. The following remits were rejected: “That 2s of each member’s annual, subscription be sent to headquarters." and that headquarters refund the 6d levy due to provincial branches” (Piako); “that new members should be financial from January till the following Alarcli twelve-months, and not from- October 1 till March twelvemonths” CPiako) ; “that the Dominion conferences be held biennially” (North Auckland).