WOMEN'S DIVISION
ACCOUNTS IN CREDIT SUCCESSFUL CONFERENCE THE DELEGATES ENTERTAINED [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Friday Credit ba lances of £250 were disclosed in the Community Chest account and in the general account, making a total of £SOO, acfcording to the report of the treasurer as submitted to the half-yearly conference of the Women's Division, New Zealand Farmers' Union, which concluded in Hamilton to-day. A remit was passed urging the Government to make single men available for farm work in view of the acute shortage that exists. The conference protested against single men being kept in relief camps. Objection to policemen questioning children at schools was made in another remit, which was approved. More supervision of side-shows formed the subject of a recommendation. The conference considered that women's organisations throughout New Zealand should co-operate in an effort to secure more suitable films for exhibition before j uvenile audiences. Wanganui delegates urged the conference to take steps to ensure representation in Parliament, but the majority opposed the idea, stating that the necessary machinery was available.
The conference voted in support of the division retaining its present status. Support was %iven to the National Council of Women and in its efforts to
have women police appointed to patrol the streets. The opinion that the term "old age pension" should be changed to "State annuity" found general support. It was the view of the conference that a home for backward and mentally deficient children should be built by the Government in the North Island, and that the inmates should be given special educational facilities. The membership banner was awarded to the Kimbolton-Kiwitea branch.
A lecture on poultry-keeping was given by Mr. C. E. Cuming, of Hamilton.
The delegates were taken for a motor run tb Cambridge to-day and were entertained to afternoon tea by members of the Cambridge branch, i
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22320, 18 January 1936, Page 19
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