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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13131, 18 July 1913, Page 2

'The suggestion that a draper's assistant at a social gathering would danbe ■fwith a typiste 1 ' rather than ijhd bestiof servant -girlsi" ! caused tlite4 ohadrmaaf-'ijHf the Welnngton Eduoatipn^^.fßoard ' eomei aJnusement at the DomO&tic Scionoe Conference m that city yHe trusted'.thAfe^Ee present movement would; have oe. -affect of lifting lip the ideal of home - life^Teo tliat, as time, went on, it wOiild' beooins geh|e»rally understood th^' : '-fi!b^aest|c' work was as noble aaid good 7as<)th|i' duties which were now clas^d higher. He remembered, when he wte, .you^fc: it was considered very derogatpry .-forf^, gentleman to have his hands m anything but gloves. Now that had pa^eed away; and he thought it was recognis^- traat the hands of industry wer^'aSs^ysci'^^ They had learned so much, and he' hoow they • would .sOon see the nopiliiy "m woman's work as well a^ ,mari ? sf '; ].'•■ y ySince the inaugural meeting, at* whiph the Governor presided, a 'gr^y^ount of work has been done m regflr'd- to "t^a formation of historical grou^ffor'.tiflo pageant to.be held. in Newfcb'-^nj ljT*a%, Wellington, on Ootober 25 and- > 87 .: ' *^r Hay, Mr Nicholls, and Mr Morris Fc«the committee of historians, haVP *^rajm up a * connected series of f.hisJoincs* epochs and episodes of the 'hfstyry '/'olf Great Britain,, and ha^V^ cast 6hf§}*a/-*^|i to the number of forty for ea^*.: gf^ttp. Mr Hamilton, of the Doininion Museum, has done similar work for':the.h|story.'.ot New Zealand. Many of the grpiipj hsvie already been taken up, and thef'cbn^^ors, with their assistants and c^t^jrden, are busy planning oi^t and making^^pstumes. ,Th© committee has u'il'^OJ)t&ke)i to bear the cost of oabliiig for tumes required .from abroad. /•a^d, dj(^s intended to ask the Minister |Or7(^tonlS tp return any duty 7on ','.. the'f^co^tufjrljSs tbeing sent back after* the p^gdaiio'^l'p over. The great bulk off the 'oo^tunifa, however, will-.be made^ 4n t^lilig^?f-.-New ■'; Zealand f^groiips' are : Tr :^94(-|^-?t' Interview of Capt«in Cook \is&h v) lfhe Maoris,' the Signing, of the .Xfsf»tyXo Waitang;i', the Early Settlement "."o^P^ Nicholson, Modern .Wellington. . ...ln addition to these groups, others ftyjfc: Uncfer bonsideration' by various : indiv^tf^Vja«d sboio(,aes'. The whole -of thepa^i^ttt^qll be undo*?* the i'direetiOn of Rf. Silver, who organised the Shajwsperean pageant at Hastings. 7