AUSTRALIAN DELEGATES TO WOMEN’S CONFERENCE

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19133, 28 July 1930, Page 10

AUSTRALIAN DELEGATES TO WOMEN’S CONFERENCE

The Australian delegation to the Women’s Pan-Pacific Conference, has arrived in Auckland, en route to Honolulu, where the conference will shortly be held. The Australian delegates are as follows:—Western Australia: Mrs Russell Smith, headmistress of Perth College; Mrs Chapman, inspector of shops and factories (industrial section). South Australia: Mrs Pennant Cooke, J.P., who sits in the Magistrate’s Court and has done much social work; Dr Constance Davey, Ph.D., psychologist (education section), deputy-chair-man to the delegation. Victoria: Mrs E. S. Allen, formerly of New Zealand, and a leading Australian woman journalist. Mrs Allen -was an alternate delegate to the League of Nations Assembly at Geneva a few years ago. and has done much public work. Other delegates from Victoria are Miss Elsie Griffin, formerly of Auckland, national general secretary of the Young Women’s Christian Association to the delegation; Miss Eleanor Moore, secretary; Dr Georgina Sweet, chairman of the delegation; Mrs J. Eddy (industrial section), domestic science and social hygiene; Mrs Munro, vice-presi-dent of the Australian W.C.T.U.; Mrs Scott (associate delegate), vice-presi-dent of the Y.W.C.A. National Board. New South Wales delegates include: Mrs Jonathan Williams, recording secretary of the Australian W.C.T.U., and member of the National Council _of Women; Mrs Inglis Glanville, vicepresident of the Women's League, and prominent member of the English Speaking Union: Miss Mabel MacDonald, Education Department; Mrs J. A. Wilson, vice-president of St Margaret’s Maternity Hospital; Miss May Yeo, vice-president of the Country Women’s Association of New South Wales, Miss Randall Collyer (associate delegate), worker for racial hygiene; and Mrs Marcus Marks (associate delegate), member of the League of Nations Union and of the Social Hygiene Society.