N.Z. WOMEN.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20284, 19 April 1934, Page 9

N.Z. WOMEN.

Conference of Delegates to National Council. REMITS CONSIDERED. The business session of the annual conference of delegates to the National Council of Women was resumed this morning, when the president Miss B. E. Carnachan, was in the chair. A South Canterbury remit considered was that all remits to the conference should be grouped by the executive committee and submitted to branches, not more than twelve subjects to be selected for discussion. The remit was carried. A Dunedin remit read: “That the National Council of Women recommends that the council’s constitution be revised, in order that the differences between Dominion rules and local branch rules be clearly defined.” It was explained that the constitution was not to be altered by the remit, but merely re-arranged so that it might be followed more clearly. Dunedin submitted a draft re-arrangement Miss E. Melville (Auckland) said that the executive had studied the remit, and the suggested re-arrange-ment, and did not recommend the grouping of the local and the Dominion rules. The Dominion Council existed through the branches, and they were so bound up that a separation of the local and the Dominion could only lead to confusion. The constitution as it stood was a “ beautiful thing,” and would repay close study. She moved that Dunedin be thanked for the work put in. The president said that the matter of publishing explanatory notes had been considered. After a long discussion the Dunedin remit was carried. Sewing in Schools. Mrs Stanley Brown (Invercargill) moved the following remit: —“ That the National Council of Women of New Zealand protests against the change from two hours per week to one hour per week as the time devoted to sewing in the primary schools, the other hour being devoted to agriculture, and so urges the Minister of Education to reconsider the amount of time devoted to this subject.” Mrs Brown said that the time devoted to agriculture gave the girls no benefit, and would be far better devoted to sewing. Miss L. Sullivan moved as an amendment that it should be urged that the teaching of sewing should be in the hands of specialists. The amendment was ruled out of order and the remit was lost. (Proceeding.)