AMONG OURSELVES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 13

AMONG OURSELVES.

(By CONSTANCE CLYDE.) WOMEN AND THE LEAGUE. As an Auckland woman speaker pointed out recently, the League of Nations, initiated after the war, had and has one virtue not common in other organisations, it asserts the equality of the sexes, and women as well as nen have always been eligible as delegates on the Assembly of which, with the Council, chiefly forms this league. In regard to women's employment throughout the world the league has called together committees which collect information and consider upon it. Even poison in lead painting has been considered by these committees in with women's work in occupations where such paint is used. The women also use the League as a means of appeal, as wlien delegates representing forty millions cf women sent a letter drawing attention to "an increasing and ominous tendency of the Press, the general public and even Governmental circles to discuss or admit in discussion, the possibility of another war. This constitutes a flagrant slur on the honour of the signatories of the Briand-Kellogg Pact, a direct menace to the youth of the world and to humanity in general. The work for peace is the most urgent task before the world to-day." QUEENSLAND'S POLICEWOMEN. Queensland has now joined those States which appoint policewomen, beginning modestly with two. One of them, Miss Zane Dare, described _ as sympathetic and tactful, has certainly had plenty of experience. For 13 years she was in China, being a camp nurse at more than one insurrection period. Then, on returning to Australia, she did slum work. In Sydney, before entering the Queensland police force, she' had organised the local W.C.T.U.