According to, motion which has reached various loca! women's groups, the man Pacific Women's Conferes which stareed last Thursday "Hawaii offers one of the most unique yreunities women of ya nationalities have had for meeting one another and exchanging ides An introduction to some of the Welegates is included in the recently received information which lists some of the Japanese, Australian, New Zealand, Chinese and Ameri-jean women who either arrived be fore the opening of the Conference or were expected for the first day.
"The Chairman of the Committee for Japan is Mrs. "Masaji Hide Tnouye, She was graduated from the Household Economics Department of the Women's University of Japan in 1904, and from 1908 to 1910 she studied at Teachers'
College, Columbia, in New York. At the present time she occupies the position of professor and dean of the apartment from which she was graduated in the Women's Univer-Bity of Japan, At the Conference she will present the findings of her asearch upon the "standard of Jiving in Japan."
"Mrs, Sumi Oe is another Japanes woman who specialized in the same aspect of professional experience. Her training aprond was with the Household Economic Department of Bedford College. She is now Diree~ for of the Tokyo Household Economies College.
Among the other Japanese ladies are Mrs. Take Otavva, and Miss Tak! Fujita, "both graduates of well known universities and both interestetl in the teaching of English to their countrywoman, Mrs. Vayo! Yoshioka has a distinguished record of service, She was graduated from the Medical School in Tokyo in 1820 fund after practising medicine for ight years during which time she also became proficient in German, she founded the Women's Medical School, whose graduates since Have been given licenses without taking government nations. Dr. Yoshioka is president of the Japan Women's Medical Association and hend of the Committees of the Tokyo Federation of Women's Associations. Mrs.
Gauntlet, British by marriage, Japanese by birth, is one of the ost known women in Japan. She represented the National W.C.1.U.
World's Convention in 1920, and after attending the Conference oF the International Women's Suffrage Alliance, returned Japan, to do valuable work in the cause of Japanese women's suffrage.
Then there are Miss Kikue Ide of Osaka, a well known leader of the Japanese woman's movement and Miss Fusaye Ichikawa, editor of the "Fusen" the monthly organ of one of the suffrage groups, and ary of the Commissi Labour of the Japanese Association on Internationial Labour.
The Japanese lady whose appoint ment us a delegate created most Public interest in Japan is Miss Yoshiko Shoda, elected by popular Yote, through the initiative of the Yomi Uri, a Japanese newspaper. Miss Shoda is lecturer in Sociology in the Women's University of Japan, Madame Chiyoko Yada, formerly wife of the Consul-General for Japan in Honolulu is also attending the Conference as a delegate.
'A Large Delegation Australia sent a delegation of 13 voting and three associate delegates. Among these are found such well known women as Mrs. Henry Dobson, who was one of the vice-presidents of the International Connell of Women from 1914 to 1925, and who has been associated with every phase of social endeavour in Others are Miss Mary: Bisbee, journalist; Mrs. Arthur Stourton, vice president of the National' Council of Women of Tas-
5 Mrs, B. M. Bischbeith, pre-of the Australian Federation of women voters; Mrs. A. Macdonald, chairman of the women Justices' Association; Mrs. Britomatte James, also a Justice of the Peace; Miss Constance Stephens of the "Sydney Sun"; Miss Burid Swain, editor of the Industrial Gazette of the Department of Labour and Industry of New South Wales.
Eighteen voting delegates were reported for New Zealand, and among these should be mentioned Dr, Mildred Staley who has had 17 years in medical service in India, who worked with the Serbian army during their retreat, who went by special request of General Allenby to Palestine during the eampadgn there, and who was appointed, after the Great War, by the British Government to investigate cond! tions of Indian women in Fiji. And there are a number of other dele~ gates with a diversity of interests and attainments. An important feature of the New Zealand delegation is the fact that it is completely representative geographically of thr whole country.
'Two outstanding women from the Philippine Islands are Mrs. J. C. de Veyra, leader of the Women' Suffrage Movement, and Dr, Mari Pax Mendors Guazon, Professor in the College of Medicine of the University of the Philippines.
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