WOMEN DELEGATES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22172, 27 July 1935, Page 20

WOMEN DELEGATES

| VISIT TO BLIND INSTITUTE j FINAL EVENT OF CONFERENCE One of the Largest gatherings ever I held at the New Zealand fnaliSnte for | j' the Blind occurred yesterday when 506 | defegates and members of the Women'* Institutes of New Zealand visaed the I institute for morning tea* They were re- : | ceired by the director, Sir Clotha Macj kerme. and Lady Mackenzie, the chair- j | man, Mr. A. J. Hutchinson, and the • lecrc-tary, Mr. Broadfoot. ! In welcoming the prey-lent, Mrs. EL | Pateraoa, and the Mr. ! Hutchinson said the Institute for site ( Blind owed to the members of women's ! I mssitcetes a greater debt of gratitude j I than it was possible for him to pat into j «'orda. He wished them to realise the s | fact that a large percentage of the ; • Cheerfulness and happiness noticeable j I and remarked upon by all •miter* to j the Institute for the Blind was dae to f their co-operation and assistance. The 1 | targe number of ro-luntary sales' from [ one end of the Dominion to the- other J [ carried oat by the organisation of which ; they were members was mainly re- ! sponsible for this happiness. The speaker concluded by inviting, : j individual!* and collectively, an* mem- j I her of tSeir organisation, when in \ I Auckland, to Tint the institute. On | behalf of the institute, Mr. Hstchin- f | son presented Mrs, Pafcerson with a j I seagyasa chair for use in one of the ; | organisation's rest homes. I A brief address on its activities and | > on the fives of those residing at the j J institute was given fey Sir Cf utfea Mac- \ kence. Mr. J. Papesch played " Lou- j donderry Air " on the organ and the | children of the school choir gave two s items. Use visitors then made op f parties under voluntary guides to in- \ \ ipect the school worksoons and home j . quarters of those residing at the ; ! institute. A fine exhibit of the work of t ' the blind, which had been prepared in \ the. gymnasium room, attracted pariicu- • lar interest. its connection with a remit passed at [ the annua! conference of the Dominion j Federation of Women's Institutes, ad- | vacating that women teachers should | receive the same salaries as men j teachers in all grades,, if the women I were the main sup-port of families, the j delegates wished it to be made dear | that they had no oca:plain; against tfeef Fi:«atioa Department or any other' j particular department. What they f wished for was *' equal pay for e<jua! } work/" A. delegate, speaking in sup- f port- of the remit, stated thai on to* i death of her husband., who had bees 1 headmaster of a native school, she had j been given the position of headmistress. f Her late husband's salary had been j £22 ICs a mouth, and the salary re- j | reived by her was. £l2 7s s month. ji These salaries were not for the year I as was formerly quoted.