VICTORIA LEAGUE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8183, 26 July 1912, Page 11

VICTORIA LEAGUE

A meeting of the executive committee of the Victoria League was held at Mrs Godley’s residence, Oriental terrace, yesterday morning, Mrs Godley presiding. Others present were Alesdames RankineBrown, Corliss, Hams, Stott, J. I*. Luke (lion, treasurer), and Chat field (hon. secretary). A letter was received from Miss Percy Taylor, formerly one of the London see'retaries ant now secretary of the Colonial Intelligence League (whoso president is Princess Christian, and whose committee includes many well-known women). The object of the league is to ascertain where English women of education and intelligence can best bo placed in the overseas dominions, and what special training, if any, is necessary. The secretary was asked to write explaining to Miss Taylor the general conditions of life in New Zealand, and the ordinary salaries given and duties expected of governesses here; also to state that, while there are certainly openings here for private teachers a certain amount of private training is necessary to tit women to fill them satisfaptorily. Though the league was prepared to welcome any women who might elect to come, no responsibility could be taken. Tho Hon. Faith Dawnoy, hon. secretary of the Settlers' Welcome Society, wrote asking for further information regarding lodgings and living expenses generally in New Zealand, as the society is receiving many questions ou tho subject. Miss Talbot, organising secretary in London, wrote expressing pleasure at the progress of the league in Wellington. It was reported that though the number of maps sent in locally for the competition recently announced was satisfactory in one way, the response from schools was not so large as anticipated. Airs Rankino-Brpwn kindly undertook to judge the maps and notify the results as soon as possible. (Resolutions were passed heartily thanking tho presidents of the Orphans’ Club and “Our Girls’ ” branch for assistance rendered at the annual entertainment hdld recently; and thanks were also accorded to Air W. A. Kennedy, manager in Wellington of the Union Steamship Company, for forwarding parcels of, literature to the Friendly Islands.