COUNCIL OF WOMEN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 76, 31 March 1933, Page 6

COUNCIL OF WOMEN

CONFERENCE REMITS. ‘ I i Pe« Pieas Association.) WELLINGTON. March 30. the conference of the Council oi ! Women tarried a remit urging that ’ both sexes should be placed on an i * quality in regvd to nationality. . Another remit adopted expressed rhe council’s iegret that the League of ! Nations Conference refused the request of rhe women of 41 nations that a woman should not lose her nationality i pon marriage. It- was recommended that the New Zealand Govern men r. shod br urged to continue it? efforts towards ibis reform. It was decided that '.he Council ask t' •• Manufa turns’ Association to suyi ‘y all storekeepers with a list of New Zealand-made good®. Delegates remarked that it had been proved that In many instances neither the retailer nor rhe customer knew the full extent of New Zealand products. Miss S. E Jackson was piesentel ; wdh a purse and a souvenir upon her {leriremeDt from the position of Dorniniron treasurer. She was made a life- | member of he Dominion Executive in ; ppreciatiou of her services. She s I the first officer officially awarded perj manent possession of the Dominion ! Badge of Honour, which she said she I appreciated most of all. At ;he annual meeting the following I officers were elected to the council for ■r.e coming year: Dotninion president, ■Mis® B. F. Csrnachan: Dominion secretary. Mis? c. J. Flatt; Dominion ! i treasurer, Mrs E. McNair; hon soli- ■ :r or. Miss Me!'die: hon. auditor, Miss (Basten. I Dr. Delamoro was elected io fill the 5 acan« y in the standing committee for publ:’’ health, and Mis. McNair and Miss Carnachan were elected to the < ommittees for finance and economic questions respectively.