MUNITIONS OF LIFE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 111, 14 May 1941, Page 3

MUNITIONS OF LIFE

IMPORTANCE OF AGRICULTURE STRESSED (0.C.) Marton. May 13. “Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and grovelling thing that we are to shuffle through as best we can, but an elevated and Jolty destiny,” concluded Mrs. J. A. Harris, in her presidential address to the annual meeting of the Wellington Central Provinvial Executive of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union in Marton to-day. Mrs. Harris said she watched with interest the splendid efforts made by members in the many branches of war work. She asked them not to overlook the importance of their own particular work. ‘"What greater war service and how can a war be won if it were not for those who produce the munitions of life?” she asked. “Are they not just as essential as those who produce the munitions of death?” asked Mrs. Harris.

“Agriculture,” she said, “should he important because the beginning of all industry was in the land. All should know how important the work of the Farmers’ Union and the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union is.” The Manawatu branch of the National Council of Women circularised all affiliated societies with a paper prepared by the American National Council of Women. Mrs. Harris said she hoped that members would study the problems set out. It was only by close co-operation with the Associated Council of Women of the World and the International Council of Women that members were made to realise that the influence of organised womanhood was indeed very real, and what a force in the world it would be for “Peace on earth; goodwill towards men.’’