NEW RIGHTS ESTABLISHED.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 305, 26 December 1929, Page 10

NEW RIGHTS ESTABLISHED.

"Every prospect" should certainly "please" feminists ill "Ceylon's isle," for it would seem as if a very liberal suffrage for women would soon b&Coiii" established. The new law will give free and equal privileges to women both in electoral and civic matters. For a while there wae a discussion regarding narrowing the right to women over thirty, but this clause was put out, and it is known that thero are- strong forces for the equal suffrage. It would seem as if eastern countries were inclined to give the suffrage to women in an equal way, whenever they do accept that idea at all, while in the West, age restrictions and others arc often considered ne-cjasary safeguards.

WOMEN POLICE,

Says an authority—"ScotlandYard has employed women police for some time, but it is only recently that women detectives have been included on the staff, although, unofficially, it has long made use of expert female investigators in certain eased." One woman upon whom the Yard relies is a Sydney lady, Mrs. K. Stevens,' who has been in their service for several years, and who is concerned largely with matters concerning women and girle, and the white slave traffic. She is one of three women lately given detective work, and is doing this very successfully.