the only woman press representative
who was sent, unhampered by male
colleagues, by any nation In the
world to “cover" the disarmament
conference in Washington, eighteen
months ago, and one of the few
newspaper women of New Zealand,
is in San Francisco.
She is Miss Nellie AT- Scanlan, spe
cial travel representative of the
“New Zealand Free Lance,” the lead
ing weekly and pictorial of the do
minion.
In her year and a half in America
Miss Scanlan has traveled over the
country, studying conditions, social,
economic, political, agricultural and
industrial, and she has lectured and
written on virtually every subject or
public Interest. Besides contribut
ing her weekly column to the Free
Lance, she has written special ar
ticles and stories based on her
American experiences in the Little
ton Times, the Auckland Herald, the
Sydney Sun, and a score of other
leading South Pacific Journals.
At the Washington conference
Miss Scanlan was dubbed the “Wife
of the South Pacific," and took her
place In diplomatic functions as the
official woman representative of her
country.
The lack of real home life in
America Impresses Miss Scanlan
more than anything else Bhe has
found here. “You live more In a
Jazz era here than we do In New
Zealand," the woman Journalist says.
“It seefns to be constant entertain
ment outside of the home that you
crave. In our country our Joys and
entertainments are all found within
the home circle. We do not have a
domestic service class. Our women
learn to manage 1 their own house
holds in the minutest particulars and
they love their homes and their
household cares. These latter do not
burden them, for they are trained
for them.
"Again, our women marry tor
homes. And they stay married.
