WOMEN AND THE VOTE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18485, 12 September 1925, Page 9

WOMEN AND THE VOTE.

♦ REVIEW OF 32 yEARS. Ai the iortnighily meeting of the Ohriatchurch branch of the "Women's Christian Temperance Union, Mrs T. E. Taylor presided, and there wes an attendance of about 100 members. The occasion being the annual celebration of the, granting cf tie franchise to women, an address was given by Mias Henderson on legislation. Miss Henderson stated tiiat it is o2 yea,6 en September l'Jth since the women oi New Zealand became eifranchised, and they were the first women in the worxl to receive this measure of justice. • It was sometimes asked what naa women done wnh their voie- during ttiese S2 years? To which slie replied, what had men done with it during the hundreds of years they have had it? That women valued the franchise was proved bv the fact that 88 per cent, of tbtm had voted last election. Much imDroved legation had oowo about during the" i>eriod of women's enfranchisement. The stveaker referred moTe particularly to child welfare and the caro of the mentally afflicted, both of which matters have been strongly urged by somen's societies all over tie -country- Tic classification oi p*tienta in Mental hospitals had recently been greatly improved. Further reforms were still needed, one beinq-- that less sordid and more interesting work should be found for women jiaticnis: I*