One of New Zealand’s Able Women

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7241, 12 June 1930, Page 11

One of New Zealand’s Able Women

Very pleasant mention of Miss Phoebe Myers, (formerly of Wellington) appears in an article in tho 'Morning Post’ of London. The writer says: "It is typial of the essentially pioneering quality of tho sister of New Zealand's Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, that Miss Phoebe Myers should bo the first woman to represent her own Dominion as a substitute-delegate at Genova. It is also typical of her that, talking of her own career she should say: ‘I was connected with most of the women’s movements in existence, hut preferred to take an active part in those concerned with constructive work.' Later when her first little speech in the famous Fifth Committee (Social Services) of the League Assembly had brought her an approving comment, one was permitted to hear a little more." Then follows a brief account'of some of Miss Myers’s work in her own land, and fhc writer touches on Geneva again, thus: "In the clamour that is Geneva with the League in Session those who arc tho quietest make tho most impression, and Miss Myers was most persistently monosyllabic. It is typical of Miss Myers that she acted in an entirely honorary capacity—which should be remembered to her credit by those who know the beat and cost of an enforced stay of some five weeks in summertime in Geneva. One carries away an impression of an extremely able little woman who docs not dissipate her enthusiasm in talk, but who is one of the creators of the standard in educational and child welfare wo-rk that have earned for her Dominion one of the highest reputations in the British Empire."