More women J.P.s?
PA Wellington Women comprise 30 per cent of approved nominations in the latest list of persons recommended by the Minister of Justice (Mr McLay) to ' the GovernorGeneral for appointment as justices of the peace. Mr McLay said yesterday he had been concerned fori ‘some, time about the dis-
proportionately small] number of women justices.!
The numbers of women being nominated had risen but he would not be satisfied until there was a better balance. At the, end of last year women had constituted only about 11 per cent of the total number of justices. In a list submitted to the ■Governor-General, earlier this year,, just’, under 30 per cent of those nominated had (been women. ’, L
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