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Mrs. Berry and her grand- children. ' lans for rs. Berry’s Visit T HAS BECOME established practice for I each world president of A.C.W.W. during her three years of office, to visit as many member countries as she can and to try to promote the organization of countrywomen in countries where up to now they have not taken a full share in community life. By the time she finishes her term of office Mrs. Berry will have circled the globe several times She has already travelled many thouâ€" sands of miles visiting country women’s so- cieties in England, Scotland, Northern Ire- land, Eire, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finâ€" land, the Netherlands and Germany, Switzer- land, the Lebanon, Malaya and Pakistan Last year she toured Africa, Visiting the Gold l l M“- A- M. Berry, President of the Associated Country Women of the World, on her African tour visits with slster A.C.W,W. members and admires their handicrull- SUMMER 1956 Coast, Nigeria, South Africa, the Rhodesias and East Africa, and went home via the United States, where she attended meetings of the Country Women‘s Council and the National Home Demonstration Council in Chicago. She also Visited members in Hawaii and New Zealand She reached home in time to spend Christmas with her family and in May this year she set out again, to visit the Women‘s Institutes in Canada. from the West coast to the East, arriving in London some time in July, Mrs. Berry will he in Ontario from June 15 to 22. Being president of such a far-flung organi- zation demands physical and mental qualities of endurance and application of a high order and Mrs. Bcrry has already proved herself in these respects a worthy incumbent. She has been a mcmbcr of the Queensland Country Women's Association since 1927. and has hold office from secretary to State Prestdont. It is reported that In her carlior days she often rodeâ€"and sometimes swamehcr horse to Association meetings when the roads were too wet and the creeks ton swollen to travc] by car. Her special interests are hostels for mothers, Red Cross work, the Queensland Bush Children‘s Health Scheme, which runs holiday homes for country children in need of medical, dental and optical treatment, iht,‘ work for crippled Girl Guides, tho assimilae tion of new Australians and the education of country children. She educated her own chil- dren under the Queensland Correspondence System Lip to high school. Although Mrs. Berry‘s home is now in Bris- bane she has a shccp slatiOn in the Charle- ville district of Quccnsland. Having for years helped with much of the outside work of her property, driving trucks and yarding sheep. Mrs. Berry is a practical cotlntry woman, very popular with her fellow country women. She is widowed, with two daughters, both mar~ ried. Mrs. L. G, Lymburner, member of the FiW.I.O. Board, who is in charge of plans for Mrs. Berry‘s Ontario tour, gives us the follow- ing outline of her program: Mrs. Berry will arrive at Port Arthur on June 15th. That Area will entertain her on Saturday the 16th, and she will fly that eve- I9