A JOINT RECEPTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20628, 29 July 1930, Page 3

A JOINT RECEPTION.

PAN-PACIFIC MEETING.

ADDRESSES BY DELEGATES. A very largely-attended reception, jointly given by the Lyceum Club arid tha Auckland branch of tho National Council of Women to the Australian and New Zealand delegates to the Pan-Pacific Conference to be held in Honolulu shortly, took place in the Lyceum Club last evening. Tho lounge had been attractively decorated with ferns and foliage, and bowls of winter flowers.

The president of the club, Mrs. W. Hv Porkes, on behalf of the members, welcomed the guests, and in her speech received to the gathering which was held two years ago to welcome returning delegates from a similar conference. Miss Carnachan, president of th<a National Council of Women (Auckland, branch), added her said sho considered the delegates a, wonderful bartd of women who were setting forth on a great mission of peace. A striking and very appropriate feature of the evening was the welcome, given to the delegates by members of the Akarana Maori Association, Mrs. Meta Clark making a brief speech, after which her Maori companions joined in a chant whiio a number of girls from the Queen Victoria Girls' College gave a waka poi. Mrs. Kaihau also sang a canoe chant with great charm, translating it for the-benefit I of her hearers.

Dr. Constance Davey, deputy chairmau of the Australian delegation, thanked tho club and the National Council for the hospitality that had been shown them since their arrival in Auckland and said they would be loath to leave. Speaking of the disadvantages under which the first) delegation had laboured, she said that, they brought back a mandate to Australian women to prepare for the next. This they had tried to do and had organised the Women's Pan-Pacific Cooperative Committee, which had since organised for the conference throughout Australia. Dr. Davey outlined the methods which had been * followed in co ordinating all resources.

Miss Eleanor Moore, of Melbourne, secretary to the delegation, also spoke of th« great opportunity which such a confer* enc.o offered.

Another speaker was Miss Elsie An< drews, who spoke particularly of this native people of the Pacific. She said she liked to feel that the idea ot such conferences as the one to which they were going was originated by the lato Mr. Mark Cohen, to whom the welfare oE women and children was very dear indeed.

Contributing to a very enjoyable programme of entertainment were an orchestra. Miss Mina Caldow, Miss Laur* Stone, Mr. Alan McEhvain and Mrs. Kaihau. Supper was then served.