WOMEN ADMITTED TO MEMBERSHIP

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21813, 19 June 1936, Page 15

WOMEN ADMITTED TO MEMBERSHIP

♦ DECISION OF AUCKLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE [THE PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND. June 18. The Auckland Chamber of Commerce, on the recommendation of its membership committee, ruled that women could become members. An enquiry had been received from a woman employee of a member company as to whether favourable consideration would be given to an application from her for her associate membership, it was reported, and the committee could see no reason why women as such should be excluded, Mr G. Jackson, who presided, said that under the existing rules there was no power to exclude women members in general, even if it were desired, although applications could be refused on personal grounds. There had been one previous woman member of the chamber. For the membership committee, Mr R. A. Spinley said there appeared to be no reason, in the light of modern conditions, why women should not become members. They appeared as advocates in Conciliation Council proceedings, they entered the medical, legal, and other -professions, and took a prominent place in modern life. There is at present one firm a member of the council, of which the principal is a woman, but a male repiesentative has acted for her. TTiere are no women associate members from the staffs of member firms.