JUSTICES OF PEACE BILL.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18128, 18 July 1924, Page 9

JUSTICES OF PEACE BILL.

; PASSED FINAL STAGES. (abbzdobd nw uncunni esfWf-)-WELLINGTON, July I 7. f The Justices of tho Peaeo Aei Amendment Bill (Mr 'Wilford) waa con* Bidered in Committee. At Clause 2 Mr Lysnar moved an amendment that no woman spjwtottS under the Act be of l«*a ««« thin 40 vears. In repiy to the queatioa haw iie would know, Mr Lysnar said pointees ought to be ablo to prodoe* birth certificates. t , . .... On a division tho- juneroiMnt **• lost by M v'otee to 18, Tba Bill *«» then reported without amendment. . Ou the tliird Aiding Mr WflfM plained that .tho pnrpoteot was only one step toward* * icsM*# which lie had haa in nuna '* * time-r-the establishment of » W Oourt, before which all OM»s in row women were concerned would w Ho also wished to ®e* «rt»i>liw><o j» New Zealand what was 1 America Ofl the v "CStyMotbar, W was not a jpohoe officer bofr f O4 *s® advised ana assisted women in tMf troubles. This wa» one > vanced steps in the women# MW? , ment in which we in New ZwltHw WWF »■ rather lagging behind. # mothers in America were latlwMMi w - judges and magUtratei, and ' justices could bo just as WWMWMt if the right women were »pl>«n»W There were many women ol his * v twice who were Worthy «f to® wimi „ Mr Lysnar said he had no objecik*. to city mothers «r to women » court#, but to put tlie ro*ponsibilrtie» « ja» tices on to women wm quit# adi*ef#s» matter. - _ j Mr MeComba contended that ntm Zealand wm lambi* f« bofcwf ** ***, matter. He wp*o. Mr Iter; show himself jmw® onlnjEhtenea ; jg his predecessors, and, with of a Bill on the Stfttoto Book, weddiii that, in imitation -of what done in Britain, woman eowd pointed, Justices of ti» Mr Holland aupportad tho Big* Bf refused WW «g* ; '■ difference an inteuiawwe betwgwn ,yff and woman. Tho latter wwjjgj* *» Bill was read a third tinw MM pttttil»