Women's Institute Greets Lady Bledisloe by Radio
STILL 200 MILES FROM PORT. Per Press Association. ■WELLINGTON, Last Night.
Tho enterprising course of extending the first welcome to Lady Bledisloe on behalf of the women of New Zealand associated with tho Women’s Institute was taken to-night by Miss Agnes M. Stops, when speaking from 2YA on the subject of women’s institutes. Explaining that Lady Bledisloe was keenly interested in the Women s Institute, which has done so much not only in Great Britain but in 40 other countries in the world, Miss Stops said that wireless advice had been given to Lady Bledisloe of the talk and welcome and a request made that she should listen in. It was estimated that Lady Bledisloe would be a little more than 200 mile.? away and that tho welcome was timely. Speaking to the Microphone, Miss Stops then said: “Lady Bledisloe, 1 hope vou aro able to hear me. On behalf of Miss Jerome Spencer, chief organiser of the Women’s Institute in Now Zealand and of members of the institute throughout the Dominion, it gives me the most intense pleasure to use the modern means of radio to extend to you the first definite greeting from the country women of New Zealand and to express the hope that you will have a happy sojourn amongst us. ’ ’ i
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7170, 18 March 1930, Page 6
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