RUGBY FOOTBALL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22629, 22 July 1935, Page 14

RUGBY FOOTBALL

♦ SUB-UNIONS" MATCH The following team has been selected to represent the Southern Sub-Unions against the Northern Sub-unions at Alexandra nest Saturday:— ~„,*, Roy (South Otago), Edie (South Tuapeka), Stanway (South Ttiapeka), Gold (South Otago), J. M'Call (West Otago), V. W. Reid (West Otago), C. Agnew (Tuapeka), Perriam (West Otago), Hughes (South Otago), Treacy (Ttiapeka), A. Orr (South Otago), J. Morrison (Tuapeka), Campbell (West Otago), Boddington (South Otago), and R. Orr (South Otago). ' Emergencies: Forward, M'KetMie (West Otago); back, Elliott (South Otago). ,

Y.W.C.A.

CONFERENCE AT KARACHI. In view of Miss Jean Begg's recent departure to take up her duties as general secretary of the Y.W.C.A. of India, Burma, and Ceylon, her many friends in Dunedin will be interested to hear Of the recent All-India Women's Conference, at which Dr Maude Royden was an honoured guest. The conference held at Karachi was attended by 250 delegates from 18 provinces and three States, some delegates having travelled thousands of miles to attend. The movement is very tree from communalism, and represents the fundamental unity that the Women of India have achieved even among the diversities of India's castes, creeds languages, and dialects. To its members, women are first of all human beings hound together by common ties, where the things of caste, creed, or colour ai'e accidental and not of central importance. The prevailing atmosphere was one of boundless hope and courage. Women in India are standing up against tremendous odds, handicapped by every kind of political, social, and educational disadvantage, yet prepared to go straight on till freedom is won. Ignorance, illiteracy, legal disabilities, social customs, purdah, child marriage, nntouchability, opium traffic, and traffic in. women are, being faced with clear eyes and calm courage. Much stress was laid on the need for free and cumpulsory primary education, and, after active discussion, coeducation was finally recommended in primary schools and universities. The. women present protested vigorously against purdah, and are bitterly concerned with the non-enforcement of the Sarda Act against child marriage. The attitude of women is, perhaps, bess summed up in a remark made by Mrs Eustomji Faridoonji at the conclusion of her presidential address: "Let our record from year to year be one of sustained and consistent work. With a reverence for ipcirnin" "H devotion to great principles, let ub build surely if we build slowly." SHANGHAI BANQUET.

The Shanghai Y.W.C.A. recently; sponsored a business girls' banquet in thu American Women's Club Rooms. Mrs Alice Tesdale (Hobart), author of "Oil for the Lamps of China/' was the speaker for the evening. Two hundred and thirtyeight gueste, representing 27 nationalities, were present, and a number took part in the programme.