WOMEN'S CONFERENCE.

[■I TXLIOUAPH. — PBESB ASSOCIATION.] NAPIER, Bth May. At the meeting of the National Council of the Women of New Zealand held to-day, considerable discussion took place on the duty of the State to illegitimate children, and the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to: — That in view of the hardships imposed upon many innocent children by the condition of illegitimacy and the absolute uselessness as a deterrent from immorality of legal disabilities inflicted upon these children, it is high time that all such legal disqualifications were removed ; that considering (a) the great mortality among illegitimate children, (b) the neglected condition of many of them who help to swell the ranks of tho criminal and diseased, the Council proposes — (1) That the State should make generous provision for the maintenance, supervision and education of all such children ; (2) that parents should be obliged to contribute according to their means to the support of their children ; (3) that these children where paternity is proved shall possess an equal status with those born in wedlock, and shall be registered in the name of tho father ; (4) that a public officer, who may be a woman, shall bo appointed, whose duty it would be before the registration of the birth of an illegitimate child is completed to discover parentage where possible with a view of enforcing the proper maintenance of the child. This Day, The National Council of Women discussed the ethics of wage-earning, and adopted the following resolution :— "That this Council is of opinion that in all classes where men and women are > en-, gaged in the same work, either in the employ of tho Government or of private individuals, equal wages should be paid for equal work."

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