NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 112, 13 May 1902, Page 5

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

NAPIEE, Monday

At the meeting1 of the National Council cf the Women of New Zealand to-day the following- resolutions were carried: 1. "That the provisions affecting- district high schools should be established for the benefit of children throughout the colony." 3. "Tint this Council notes with delight the expressed intention of the Government to proceed immediately with th-i erection of a home for deficient children." 3. "Seeing that in every other respect the law holds girls under the age of 21 to be minors-, and unable to enter into the marriag-o contract without the consent of their parents, this Council considers that the age of consent should be raised to 21 years." 4. "That the National Council.feels that it is urgently necessary that the Public Health and Hospital and Charitable Aid Acts be amended, so as to make prevision for the establishment of special wards for the admission of patients suffering from venereal disease, :'nd voluntarily presenting themselves for treatment." 5. "That this Council gratefully recognises the steps that the Government has already taken in establishing wards for the accommodation of patients suffering from delirium tremens, and urges that similar provision should be mad.* for cases of lunacy, and extended to all large centres of population." 6. "That the executive be instructed to appoint a deputation to wait upon the Acting-Premier and members of both Houses, and enter a strong protest against the continued delay of the repeal of the CD. Acts." '. "That whereas the liquor traffic is declared on undisputed authority to be the cause of much misery, much vice and much crime, therefore this National Council of Women pledges itself on humanitarian grounds to do all in its power to discountenance the manufacture, importation and sale of alcoholic liquors." 8. "That this Council approach the Minister for Education with a view to having scientific instruction in the nature of alcohol and its effects on the human system given to then.riildren in our State schools."