PAN-PACIFIC WOMEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20642, 14 August 1930, Page 11

PAN-PACIFIC WOMEN.

CONFERENCE AT HONOLULU. TALKS ON CHILD WELFARE. \ (Received August 13. 5.55 p.m.) HONOLULU, August 12. A public meeting in connection with tlie Pan-Pacific Women's Conference was held last evening. The speakers were Dr. Louise Stanley, chief of the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agriculture, Washington, and (Miss Burleigh, head of the Child Guidance Clinic, Los Angeles. Dr. Stanley described the organisation of the great conference on child welfare summoned by the President of the United States, Mr. Hoover, to be hold at White House in November. She said a committee of experts : liad formed many committees and-sub-committees of specialists in every branch of the subject, which now had been at work two years. Miss Burleigh's subject was. mental hygiene. She made special reference to the work done in the direQtipn of child guidance. Miss Burleigh, who is to leave Honolulu to-morrow, assisted the social service and health sections of' the conference to-day'in a discussion of the subject. This afternoon the delegates inspected the Palama Hospital extension, the social service settlement and the Salvation Army Girls' Home.