EAST AND WEST.

Otago Witness, Issue 3995, 7 October 1930, Page 34

EAST AND WEST.

WOMEN IN CONFERENCE. AUCKLAND, September 29. After having been away for three months, Miss Jean Begg, general secretary of the Y.W.C.A., returned to Auckland by the Tofua. She is enthusiastic about work done at the Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference in Honolulu, at which she was leader of the New Zealand delegation of 12 women. “ It was a great experience,” said Miss Begg this morning. “I think it is an excellent thing for New Zealand women to meet delegates from various countries and realise that they have their problems, which, owing to the vhst extent of their countries, are magnified many times. For instance, it. is good for us to know that Japan, with a population of 82,000,000, is struggling with problems similar to those of New

Zealand, which has only a population of 1,500,000. The conference itself was a great exchange and sharing of common experiences. We were much struck by the* Chinese and Japanese delegates, who were splendid. 'Taking them as a cross-section of the women of their countries we would never think they were behind the times. The delegates were up-to-date in reading and thinking, and were working magnificently and with splendid determination to achieve the uplift of their people by social welfare work.”