LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20251, 10 May 1929, Page 7

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

CLUB LUNCHEON TALK

The first of the Lyceum Club luncheon talks for this year took place ai the club .yesterday, the speaker being the Rev. \Y. G. Monckton, in the absence of the president, Mrs. W. If. Parkes, Miss E. Melville, vice-president, introduced Mr. Monckton to the audience.

Tho part that women are playing in the work of the League of Nations was tliß subject of tho address and Mr. Monckton was at considerable pains (o show what, they actually were doing. In reply (o tho statement that had been made sometimes that the women of New Zealand had taken no part in the work of the League, Mr. Monckton said it was possible that the women of New Zealand had done more than was generally known. He instanced what had been done in the work of caving for tho Armenian refugees, a work that had been placed in the hands of a Ohristchurch lady and her husband. There had also been Neiv Zealand women on two or three of the committees.

Speaking more particularly of the work in regard to the protection of women and children and tho promotion of child welfare work Mr. Monckton said that this had become one of the most important of the present-day works of the League. The genesis of the Declaration of Geneva was traced by the speaker and some of its aims quoted. "The world and humanity " so ran one of its statements, " owes to the child the best they have to give and the child must be trained in the best possible. manner so as to promote/thc best physical, moral, mental and intellectual growth" ... In return the child must be brought up to realise that it owes the best it has to givo to the service of its fellow men." All (he governments rat Tied the declaration and the first to sign was China.