MINISTERS AT HOME

Southland Times, Issue 17938, 1 February 1917, Page 5

MINISTERS AT HOME

MR MASSEY AND SIR JOSEPH WARD

ENTERTAINED BY WOMEN'S

SOCIETY

(By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright)

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

LONDON, January 31 Received January 31, 8.55 p.m.

The National Union Women's Society entertained Mr Massey and Sir Joseph Ward. The speakers included Mrs Fawcett, and Lady Frances Balfour, who eulogised New Zealand women’s work during the war, particularly the movement for the preservation of infant life, in which New Zealand led the world in regard to the death rate. England being 111 in a thousand, Germany 140 in a thousand, and New Zealand 51 in a thousand.

Sir Joseph Ward said that the movement in New Zealand had been initiated by Dunedin women under Dr Truby King’s guidance. The Plunket nurses were doing valuable work. It seemed almost certain that the women of Britain had done such excellent work in freeing the men for the firing line that it would be impossible to resist the extension of the franchise to them after the war.

Mr Massey urged the women to support the war loan with generous subscriptions.