WOMEN IN CONGRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 128, 1 June 1926, Page 7

WOMEN IN CONGRESS.

GREAT PARIS MEETING. "WIDE REPRESENTATION. PARIS, May 31. The congress of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance is now sitting at the Sorbonne. The official opening in the greit amphitheatre of the famous academic institution was a brilliant affair. Mrs. Corbett Ashby, in her opening speech, said the women of Japan and Britain were greeting those from Brazil, Australia and New Zealand, and would be able to compare their respective problems. _ .Miss Bromham, an a speech of greeting on behalf of the Australian Federation of Women's Societies, said: "My country is young in its national life. That is probably the reason why we have struck a new note in framing some of our legislation fox Australia, namely, our land experimental legislation. "It is over 20 years since our men, without any special agitation on the part of women, gare us votes on equal terms. That experiment has been justified by results. >iow the Federal Government has made another experiment by introducing compulsory voting. Mv organisation aims a«t making the vote of Australian women effective for the greatest good of our beautiful country." The delegates wene much interested in Mrs. Thompson. tbi> delegate from the Northern Territory of Australia, who had not seen any white people for three years before she seiiled to attend the congress.—(A. and ~S.Z.)