VICTORIA LEAGUE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21505, 31 May 1933, Page 5

VICTORIA LEAGUE

AFTERNOON RECEPTION Miss Edith Thompson, C.8.E., and 31iss Olive Hargreaxes, both members .of the Victoria League in England, were the guests of the Victoria League at a reception held in the league rooms yesterday afternoon. There was a very large attendance of members, and the two guests of honour were welcomed in a brief speech by the president, Miss Mowbray. An interesting address upon the work of the league as she had seen it in the British Dominions was given by Miss Thompson. During the past five years she had come into contact with the league in different countries and had been greatly interested in its development. ill 1927 she had chaperoned an English hockey team in Australia and had experienced the greatest hospitality from the various branches. Later she had accompanied a hockey team to South Africa and there had found the league active, particularly in Capetown and its environments. In' Canada she had found the place of the league taken by the Imperial Order of Daughters of Empire, it was a very powerful organisation and had been started during; the Boer War to supply comforts to the troops. After the war was over the Daughters of Empire decided to continue and t-o link up with the women in England. Among their various activities they did a great deal of work with schools, sent scholars to England to study, and carried out patriotic work. Miss Thompson spoke of the hospitality that had been offered to a party of 25 English schoolgirls who had been invited to visit Canada on the same lines as those for parties of British schoolboys. She also spoke of various phases of the work of the league in Jilngland, including work in connection with supplies of literature to distant places and that of arranging lectures for schools and for unemployed men. Miss Hargreaves paid a tribute to Miss Nation for her work in connection with the Overseas Settlement Department, for she had looked after the girls who carne out to New Zealand admirably. She also spoke warmly of the hospitality that she and Miss Thompson had met with in New Zealand. Later, Miss Hewitt played pianoforte solos delightfully, and tea was served. The hostesses were: —Miss Mowbray, Lady Sinclair-Lockhart, Mrs. C. R. Keeble, Mrs. J. B. Macfarlane, Miss Eenton, Mrs. liickerby, Mrs. Thronsen, Mrs. S. Chambers, Mrs. N. B. Levien, -Mrs. Sellars, Mrs. Clarkson, Miss Tapper.