FIERCE HEAT WAVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 140, 15 June 1932, Page 7

FIERCE HEAT WAVE.

22 Deaths Reported From

Cawnpore.

OTHER CITIES SWELTERING

(Received 9.30 a.m.)

DELHI, June 14.

Twenty-two people, including three Britishers, died from heat at Cawnpore to-day and hundreds collapsed in the streets. Delhi, Calcutta and Allahabad are also sweltering in oppressive heat. The arrival of a cooling monsoon is eagerly awaited.

NOT LOYAL

Why Women Do Not Gain

Their Rights

CONFERENCE IN LONDON.

LONDON, June 0.

"Women have made the sphere of disarmament their own," declared Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, presiding at the British Commonwealth League's Conference, "and we regard the proceedings at Geneva as an insult. We may have to think seriously whether we shall not be driven to obtaining our needs by more forcible methods."

Mrs. Jameson Williams (Australia), moving a resolution urging women's admission to Holy Orders on the same terms as men, asked when church leaders would realise that they had lost hold of a large proportion of intelligent women. She had known women leave the church because they were ostracised after criticising pulpit teaching. Women were given only minor jobs, and must not aspire to a Sunday school superintendentship or leadership of a choir. The missionary's wife, although facing an equal hardship with her husband, was bearing a double burden, bearing and rearing children, but she was not accorded recognition, and could not even baptise a baby if a man was near.

Numerically, continued Mrs. Jameson Williams, women were empowered to get their way, but were not loyal to each other. She recalled a church meeting where a majority of women elected a wholly male committee. The resolution was carried.