PROMINENT AUCKLAND WOMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 278, 23 November 1929, Page 14

PROMINENT AUCKLAND WOMEN.

MISS SARAH E. JACKSON.

Closely identified with the women's movement, especially with tlie work of the National Council of Women as a member of the Auckland Branch, Miss S. E. Jackson's name, is well known. The National Council, it will be remembered, was started through Lady Aberdeen, president of the National Council at Home, who suggested that a similar body should be; set up in this country. That first movement died, and in 1917, in association with Mrs. Lovell Smith and Miss Henderson, of Christchurch, and Miss Ellen Melville and Miss

Griffin, general secretary of the Y.W.C.A., Auckland, Miss Jackson resuscitated the National Council in New Zealand. She became honorary treasurer on the Dominion Executive, which office she still - holds. Miss Jackson was also secretary of the Au c kland branch for five years. Born at Birmingham and educated at Fulneck School, near Leeds, Miss Jackson was employed in the teaching profession from 1876 to. 1881, and taught at the Moranian Church Boarding School, in Bedford. She came out to New Zealand by the ship Wellington on the first day of 1882, and after she ha;d been here a few months -accepted the appoin remained in the sei welfare work until i been engaged in vol

accepted the appointment of matron of the Girls' Industrial School. (She remained in the service of the Education Department in charge of child "welfare work until she retired on superannuation from which time she has been engaged in voluntary social work. Her training as a school teacher has eqxiipped Miss Jackson with a sound knowledge of all matters pertaining to children, and in this direction she was a valuable member of the Edendale School Committee, on which she sat for five years. It also made her most suitable for her work in the Children's" Court, where since 1927 she has exercised jurisdiction. Miss Jackson was also one of the first women here to receive the title of Justice of the Peace. The Society for the Protection of Women and Children lias always held a deep interest for Miss Jackson, and ever since she retired she has given unstintingly of her time in this work.