WOMEN’S DIVISION

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21088, 14 July 1938, Page 10

WOMEN’S DIVISION

ANNUAL CONFERENCE By Telegraph —Press am, elation WELLINGTON, July 13. A change of some consequence in the rules of the Women's Division opens full membership for all women living in country districts, and not only those connected with the land. The old rule cut out useful people such as the wives of schoolmasters and storekeepers. The difficulty of obtaining competent help for the Division’s Nurse and Housekeepers’ Scheme for providing help to country homes in cases of illness and trouble was brought before the meeting. One suggestion was that girls from English orphanages should be brought out as home workers. Another was that girls from Central Europe should be invited.

Dr. Strong, of Otago University, pointed out that the solution lay with the New Zealand women themselves. New Zealand girls should be trained In homecraft and the work made as attractive as other work.

A suggfestion was made that such training should be compulsory. The Division Is wholeheartedly behind the Minister of Health in his schemes for the training of Maori girls for work among their own people. It was suggested that a fine Centennial Memorial from the women of New Zealand would be the establishment of a hospital for Maori women staffed by Maori nurses.