WOMEN’S DIVISION.

Wairarapa Age, 22 August 1929, Page 4

WOMEN’S DIVISION.

NEW DOMINION PRESIDENT CONGRATULATED. At an afternoon tea gathering held in her honour in Messrs Hugo and Shearer’s Rooms yesterday, Mrs C. C. Jackson was congratulated warmly upon her election to the position of Dominion President of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union. The function was organised by the Masterton branch of the Division and though some members were kept at home by the state of the roads, there was an attendance of about fifty. Mrs I. E. Cameron, vice-president, presided in the absence through illness of the president of the Masterton branch, Mrs A. C. Mac Diarmid. On behalf of members of the Division, Mrs T. W. Wardell presented Mrs Jackson with a black morocco handbag and a beautiful bouquet of violets, sent by Mrs Arch. Clark, of Featherston. Mrs Oameron said they were all very proud that Mrs Jackson had been made president cf the whole Division and paid tribute to the fine qualities their guest had exhibited in various branches of community activity and service. Mrs Cameron spoke also of the growth of the Division and >aid she remembered the time when they had only four or five members. Mrs Jackson thanked members of the Division for their gifts and for the kind things said alwut her. She wont on to about the aims and objects of the Division and said she could see a great deal of work ahead. Exhorting members to do their utmost to incr ase the membership, Mrs Jackson pointed out that while the Farmers’ Union had 30,060 members,, the Women’s Division had as vet onlv

5,000. She declared herself strongly in favour of co-operation with other women’s organisations and said it would be a very good thing to he represented on the National Council of Women.