A LITTLE GARDEN OF EDEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 134, 9 June 1925, Page 7

A LITTLE GARDEN OF EDEN.

WOMEN'S COUNCIL, ON N.Z. THE LAW AND THK SKX. (By Telegraph. — Tress Amocladin.l WKLM.VGTON', this day. At the conference of I he Council of Women, h-ld in Washington recently, U countries were rr-j■ i• --ented. Mr.-- Fran. president r,f i.V- [ hristcliunh branch oi j the Women* Xatioiml Council, who waa delegate, returned by the Makura. She. i sat on tlm committees of tlie conference. dealing ttitfi i-ducntion, suffrage, and erjuai moral .stunditrd for men and "They would porsisi in New Zealand a little Garden <,f lidcn," bju.l j Mrs. J-'racr,' , :mrl they would not believe us whin wn told them thai, we had no women justices of the jio women magistrates, no women jurors, no women members of Parliament, no womw police, 'ft i.-i simply not possible,' they Raid. 'We have always heard that New Zealand is so progressive' " Mrs. Kraer came to the conclusion that apart from these, matter* New Zealand had no reason to b« ashamed o£ itself in regard to progress and social conditions. Undoubtedly, however, the women of the Scandinavian countries were the most progressive of all, and had travelled further than others alonp the road to social, political, nnd rivi< freedom. One of the members of i!n; Kn/1.-I delegation was Mi<s Tancred. a liiiilenauin the London I'olii-i- l-'«.i.■■■. M•-- \.<n- r.-.i was born in (Jliri-tfinirch, \mt. u-a-brought up in EiiKlaml. .'!■■! •ho«"il hti l _ ?elf a particularly :, ,!•■ v...imhi.. Yot \h<firnt time in her '~:-u,ry < hina «"■■■" represented ..' i !:•• 'niiii-nn-.