CIVIC LEAGUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 125, 29 May 1922, Page 3

CIVIC LEAGUE.

The u:-uiil monthly meeting of the ' (. ivic league was held in the roon>s of 1 the Business Girls" Club on \\ ?dnesuHy \ evening, when .Mrs. Bush was elected v president in place of Mrs. Kenneth ■' Mackenzie, who has been compelled to resign. There was a fair attendance of members, and the evening was devoted to five minute speeches by members. A number of subjects were, put in a hat , and distributed to all present, and they ' c were asked to speak to the subject for live minutes. The debate was very anvusing and showed that the League contains a large amount of talent, which „ would rapidly develop into quite able p speakers if given sufficient opportunity . for practice, yearly all spoke c-lea-iy 7 and although taken somewhat aback In - e their subjects arranged their Unmgliti n quite in sequence. Such subjects ;; - ---„ "What is the host method to extend the a membership of the Civic League." jj brought the opinion that each member n should bring a friend with then> and a try to get them to join the League. 0 '"Why did you join the Civic League? U was answered by the member, who said c that she came to a meeting and so enjoyed it that she joined. She thought every woman should be interested in civics. "Why do men speak better in public than women?" drew the opiuj ion that it was a matter of practice 7 only. Women in these days, said one s speaker, should cultivate a. clear speake ing voice, and also take elocution lessons . if they wished to be heard. Often a r pretty woman got up to speak, but 4 failed to be heard or to gain attention. s "Do yon approve of corporal punish- [_ ment for children?" had both sides ( . touched upon, and the subject, "Should s n>en give up their seats in tramcars to women? , ' brought, out a decided negative from a speaker, who said, when the man was a hardworking man who b had been upon his feet all day, he 3 should not be expected t,, rise. The speaker pointed out that if women were going to compete with men they must ' do it on an equal footing. Women who were in town shopping should never be in cars which were filled with workers; !'* they should make an effort to be home / before the rush. Asked if the age of t e chivalry was dead a speaker said decidedly not, when a man would {five up C ' his life belt to save a woman from death and drown himself, and when the little girls in the Auckland cshrs showed such a fine spirit of chivalry to elder women. A Canadian visitor made an able little speech on "Whether women should earn an income after marriage." which showed grip of her subject and , t the value of the Canadian method of L teaching women to express themselves lucidly, clearly, briefly and to the point.