Notes for Women

Southland Times, Issue 25505, 27 October 1944, Page 6

Notes for Women

Miss Pat Mathieson, Oreti, has returned from Lawrence.

Mrs H. Mclntosh, Hedgehope, has returned from a visit to Winton.

Mrs G. M. Broughton, Duke street, has returned from Queenstown. Mrs P. B. Macdonald, Dalrymple street, has returned from a visit to Dunedin.

Miss Joan Pinfold, Hamilton, returned north yesterday after a short visit to Invercargill. A. tribute to the work done by Mrs H. A. Brumby during her 19 years association with the Girl Guide movement was paid by the district commissioner, Miss C. L. Cumming, at the Invercargill association’s annual meeting last night, at which Mrs Brumby was elected president. Mrs H. C. Jones, who was recently elected vice-president of the New Zealand Association in New South Wales, will shortly leave by flying-boat on an extended visit to New Zealand. While in New Zealand, Mrs Jones plans to tell of the activities of the association in providing for the comfort and entertainment of members of the New Zealand forces passing through Sydney. Mrs Jones’s younger son, Flying Officer Laurie Jones, R.A.A.F., is pilot and captain of a Liberator. A delegate to the Dominion conference of the National Council of Women which was held in Dunedin in 1900 referred to the right of a wife to share in the income of the home, and pointed out that according to the church service, a man on parrying said, “With all my worldly goods I thee endow.” “This is twice as much as we ask for,” she added. “We ask for only half.” This story was told by the Mayor of Dunedin (Mr D. C. Cameron) at the civic reception to the delegates to the conference of the National Council of Women, just concluded in Dunedin. “Today, 44 years later, this does not apply, as the Government gets most of the income and so mere man does not count on a great deal,” Mr Cameron added, amid laughter.