Important Remits For Conference of Women's Division

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27094, 31 May 1949, Page 2

Important Remits For Conference of Women's Division

The annual provincial conference- of the Otago branches of the Women’s Division, Federated Farmers, will be held tomorrow. This afternoon delegates will have a social meeting at the St John Ambulance Hall in York place, A long list of remits has been presented for discussion at the conference. These include proposals that vprisoners convicted of sexual offences be given more diastic punishment; that corporal punishment be instituted for persons guilty of assault on women and children; that country mothers who are unable, by reas?n of . heavy domestic duties, to supervise children on correspondence school l°fhu ai lu lav , e en S a ge extra help to enable them to do so should receive a minimum allowance of £1 per week; that the Government be asked to provide transport to their homes for girls working late on telephone exchanges; that the Government be urged to expedite rural power reticulation; that the Government be asked to lift the tax on cream sent in by country women. List of Delegates <v.? c i egates ex pected to attend the conS® are;—-Alexandra, Mrs L. Sanders and Mrs R. Scott; Arrowtown, Mrs J. B. Hamilton; Bannockburn, Mrs W. Olds and Mirs E. T. Lawrence; Beaumont, Mrs A. L McManus and Mrs G. Aitken; BerwickMaungatua, Mrs Bruce Miller and Mrs A. J. Spencer; Cambrian-St. Bathans, Mrs F. C. Morgan and Mrs S. A. Harley; Clinton, Mrs J. A. Taylor and Mrs H. J. McGaw; Clutha, Mrs D. G. Birss and Mrs W. Sutherland; Clutha Valley, Mrs W. Caldwell and Mrs Mosely; Clyde Mrs W. Wilson and Mrs R. Arnott; Cromwell, Mrs W. Brown and Mrs H. Webb; Crookston, Miss E. G. Pullar and Miss M. Bathgate; Dunedin, Mrs E P. Evans and Mrs A. Mackersy; Ettrick, Mrs J. A. MacPherson; Galloway, Mr s J. Keddell and Mrs B. C. Ashton; Glenorchy, Mrs D. Scott; Hawea Flat, Miss Jopp and Mrs T. J. Allison; Henley, Mrs Boraman and Mrs J. Hunter; Inchclutha, Mrs M. Morrison and Mrs R. S. Lockhead; Kelso, Mrs O. F. Duff and Mrs L. Scarlet; Lauder, Mrs M. Leask, sen. and Mrs A. Brown; Maniototo, Mrs P. H. R. Clarke and Mrs J. Mawhinney; Merton, Mrs W. Hight and Mrs T. H. Hammond; Middlemarch Junction, Miss C. Matheson and Miss L. Howell; Middlemarch, Mrs F. Howell and Mrs R. C. Sutherland; Milburn-Clarendon, Mrs H. Wisely and Mrs W. Graham; Miller’s Flat, Mrs B. Waller and Mrs F. McDonald; Milton. Mrs C. R. Sheat and Mrs R. H. Baird; Moa Flat, Mrs H. A. Duff and Mrs E. W. Sutton; Omakau, Mrs E. Mawhinney and Mrs H. W. Oaten; Otakou, Mrs H. Harwood and Miss L. A. Harwood; Oturehua, Mrs J. Dundass and Mrs T. McKnight; Owaka, Mrs Landredth and Mrs A. Eason; Owaka Valley, Mrs W. Friend and Mrs G. C. Capon; Palmerston, Mrs T. Sheat and Mrs I. Ross; Portobello, Mrs Brown and Mrs Dick; Poolburn-Moa Creek, Mrs L, E. Barett and Miss Dorothy Nevill; Queenstown, Miss E. Davies and Mrs W. V. MacDonald; Ratanui, Mrs Allan and Mrs Sheed; Tapanui, Mrs I. D. Edgar and Mrs G. Metzger: Tahatika, Mrs McNab and Miss Allen; Tarras Mrs H. Stokes; Tuapeka West, Mrs E. Williams and Mrs G. Ross; Waikoikoi, Miss M. McCall; Waikouaiti, Mrs C. S. Payne and Mrs J. A. Payne; Wanaka. Mrs S. Faulks and Mrs G. Morris; Wangaloa, Mrs D. Finch and Mrs R. McCrostie; Warrington Miss E. Stuart and Mrs A. Hay; West Taieri, Mrs E. Dodd, and Mrs B. McDonald.