INTERNATIONAL DAY

Wanganui Chronicle, 26 February 1947, Page 7

INTERNATIONAL DAY

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S CLUBS.

International Day of the Wanganui Federation of Business and Professional Women was celebrated by the Wanganui B. and P. Club on Monday evening. Members gall i red at the Y.M.-Y.W.C.A. Lounge for tea and this was followed by the candle lighting ceremony. Each candle represented a National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs. The largest candle ot all was that of the Internationa! Federation, and in front of it stood a slightly smaller one representing the founder Federation of the United States of America. In front of these two candles were grouped those of the other 31

national f ederations, 15 unlit These represented countries whose ’light’ had been extinguished by war, and it was with thankfulness that four, Holland, Poland, Austria, and Czecho-Slovakia could be relit from the International candle. France, Belgium and Italy had been relit the previous year. A message from the International Federation’s president, Dr. Lena Madesin Phillips, of New York, was read y Miss M. Sewell, president of the Wanganui Club, while Miss Vine gave a precis and explanation of the booklet forwarded from International Headquarters, “Women and the Atomic Age." She stressed the need lor women to take an intelligent interest in this new force and to use their influence to ensure its utilisation for the good of mankind instead of foiits destruction. At seven o’clock members grouped around the radio to listen to Miss Daphne Chapman, of Christchurch, president of the Dominion Federation, who gave a 15-minute talk over the four main N.B.S. stations.