Women’s National Work

Northern Advocate, 24 May 1941, Page 4

Women’s National Work

DURING the week the Dominion President of the National Council of Women (Mrs. D. Mclntosh) paid a visit to Whangarei. Her visit recalls a long record of service performed by this organisation. It is many years since a band'of women, who were then regarded as decidedly “advanced” founded the council, and it was largely due to their advocacy of reforms that there was placed on the Statute Book, sooner than would otherwise have been the case, legislation of a humanitarian nature which now plays a beneficent role. Today the council is continuing its efforts to broaden the outlook of women, feeling that if they are encouraged to take an intelligent interest in community welfare they will understand the ideals of other women and widen their sympathy, thus helping to make the world a better place. It is indisputable that women’s organisations are doing wonderful work throughout the Dominion, and the aim of the National Council is to provide for those organisations a medium whereby they may make combined instead of isolated approach to the Government in support of desired reforms.