WOMEN’S DIVISION.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20248, 17 July 1937, Page 12

WOMEN’S DIVISION.

CONFERENCE CONCLUDES. MANY REMITS ADOPTED. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. The annual conference of Ihe Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union concluded to-day. Mrs Hebbard (Taihapo) and Mrs Poison (Wanganui) were re-eleoted lo the advisory committee of the Bush Nurse and Housekeeper Auxiliary. Other officers elected were:—Finance committee, Mesdanies Mathleson. McNeil, Preshaw (Wellington) and Hawthorn (Upper Ilutt) ; Pan-Pacific Conference. Mrs Jackson; war relief committee, Mrs Lundlus; Red Cross Society, Mrs Angus; co-ordinating committee, Mcsdames Drake, Barrer and Noel Adams. Remits were carried supporting the Immigration scheme; requesting ithe Government to'expand the scheme of Interest-free money, allowing fanners to build houses for f farm workers; asking that the basic wage should be made more equitable by providing for man and wife and adding thereafter an allowance for caoh child; urging the Government to make an effort to reduce overhead costs In distribution within cities; requesting that, where a woman Is a breadwinner she should have the same right, as a man in sharing any advantages of legislation; advocating stricter supervision of the selling of liquor; desiring legislation for the training and employment of suitable women as police officers; and urging that nurses’ hours of work should be modified to permit of more study*