WORK FOR WOMEN.
INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE. FOUR MEMBERS APPOINTED. MISS CARNACHAN INCLUDED. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Monday. The Unemployment Board, under the provisions of the Unemployment Amendment Act, has appointed tho following special committee to consider the question of unemployment among women Mr. H. D. Thomson, Under-Secretary of Immigration, chairman of the committee. Mr. Frank Campbell, of Wellington, a former president of tho New Zealand Manufacturers' Association. Mrs. Marshall Macdonald, of Dunedin. Miss B. E. Carnachan, of Auckland, president of tho National Council of Women. Miss Carnachan has for many years taken an active interest in the improvement of conditions for women and children, having early this year been appointed a special children's magistrate, with power to exercise jurisdiction in the Children's Court. She was formerly a school teacher and on her retirement from the profession became a member of many Auckland societies, taking a special interest in those which have for their main object tho uplift of women and children. Slio is a member of the boards of management of the Auckland Young Women s Christian Association and tho Seddon Memorial Technical College and has been for many years president of the Auckland branch of the National Council of Women. She was among the first women jusMces of the peace. Mrs. Macdonald, who for a number of years has been prominently identified with' philanthropic work in Dunedin, was trained as a nurse in Sydney and served for four years during the war with various hospital and nursing units. In 1921 sho was elected a member of the Otago Hospital Board and at the elections in May last she was returned with one of the largest individual votes ever accorded a candidate in Dunedin. Sho has at all times taken a foremost part in the re-
lief of unemployment distress and many months ago established a depot, which she has since conducted under her personal supervision.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20954, 18 August 1931, Page 10
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316WORK FOR WOMEN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20954, 18 August 1931, Page 10
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