WOMEN’S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 7, 7 December 1936, Page 11

WOMEN’S WORLD

Mrs R. Sitwell, of Palmerston North, is visiting Auckland. Miss L. Hearsey, of Longburn, is visiting friends at Paremata. Mrs E. Beaumont, of Christchurch, who has been staying with Mrs AV. J. Bay. of Margaret Street, left this morning for Wellington. Mrs McCrae and Miss Joyce McCrae, of Longburn. have taken up their residence in Christchurch.

Mrs Alfred Watt, chairwoman of the Associated Country Women of the World, who has been touring New Zealand, leaves by the Makura to-mor-row for Australia. Mrs A\ illiam Deans, of San down, Darfield, Dominion president of the Women's Institutes, is visiting Wellington to farewell Mrs Watt, as well as to attend a meeting of Women’s Institutes. Tt was on the invitation of the 'Women’s Institutes that Mrs Watt visited New Zealand.

Miss Jean Stevenson, national general secretary of the Y.W.C.A, of Now Zealand since 1932, has asked to be relieved of her duties on account of ill-health. Miss E.' Law, who is at present conference and training secretary of the Y.W.C.A. of Canada, has accepted the position and will probably take up her new duties in September, 1937. Miss Law was previously general secretary for New Zealand and has since been gaining wider experience in a similar position in Canada.

Miss Jean Batten, who has been visiting Wairakei, will return to Auckland to-day and will leave by the Awatea on Wednesday for Sydney, where she will meet her mother. They will then conic to New Zealand, reaching Wellington bv the Awatea on December 21. Mrs Batten, who remained in England when her daughter set out on her record-breaking flight to New Zealand, is now on her way from England in the liner Esperance Bay. The presence of two members of the Women's Division of the Farmers’ Union in a farmers’ deputation to the Minister of Labour (Hon. H. T. Armstrong! at Te Awamutu was an unusual feature of such a gathering. They were Mrs F. J. B. Byburn (provincial president) and Mrs C. North, both of whom took part in the discussion. Mrs Bvbtirn affirmed. and cpioted a medical man in support, that numbers of farmers and farmers’ wives were- breaking down under strain of the labour tliev are compelled to do on dairv farms through their inability to obtain labour. Never before, she said, had farmers’ wives and their children slaved so much.

(By “Nanette.”)