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PAN-PACIFIC CONFERENCE.
Women's Enthusiasm.
SYDNEY, Sept. 18:— The Australian
delegation to the Pan-Pacific Women's
Conference at Honolulu, which was ac-
credited by several Australian women's na-
tional organisations, received a warm wel-
come on its return to Sydney on Saturday.
Since then delegates have been engaged
speaking at receptions and meetings and
over the wireless.
Mrs. Bessie M. Rischbieth, from West-
ern Australia, said that Mr. Alexander
Ford, the director of the Pan-Pacific
Union, under the auspices of which the
conference was held, claimed that the
women's conference was the most sig-
nificant and most far-reaching ever held
in Hawaii. The delegation appreciated
Honolulu as an important regional inter-
national meeting ground, where women of
the youngest civilisations met women of
the oldest civilisations without traditional
prejudices. The way was clearer there for
a field of discovery in international friend-
ship. Permanent headquarters had been
established at Honolulu, and the next con-
ference would be in 1930. In the mean-
time, certain important research projects
were to be prompted by Pan-Pacific coun-
tries. On the night before leaving Hono-
lulu the delegations from Australia and
New Zealand were honuored by a farewell
banquet, and there was a Governor's re-
ception at Admiralty House. Private hos-
pitality was of a most generous nature.
The Australian Federation of Women
Voters will entertain the delegation in
Melbourne on September 26.
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