NATIONAL COUNCIL

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 175, 26 July 1944, Page 3

NATIONAL COUNCIL

EQUAL CITIZENSHIP WANTED That the Auckland branch support a resolution asking the Government to make an immediate investigation into existing legal sex anomalies and injustices in New Zealand, and to include in its programme of legislation for the coming session an equal citizenship bill, was a request from the New Plymouth branch of the National Council of Women at the monthly meeting of the Auckland branch.

It was reported that the council had received a reply from the deputy-Director of the Post and Telegraph Department to a letter asking if any reduction could be made in the postage on overseas civilian parcels, or the restoration of the former rate of 3/4 for 71b. The deputy-director said that when the weight restriction was imposed by the British Government the New Zealand Government asked for a reduction in the postage rate, but this was declined. Of the 3/4 charged the New Zealand Post Office retained only 1/, the balance being absorbed in transmission costs and handling charges incurred by the British Post Office. The British Ministry of Food had ordered that parcels were not to exceed 51b. , , , . It was unanimously resolved to communicate with the Government congratulating it on setting up the Invercargill Licensing Trust Board. ■ • i