WOMEN’S SERVICE GUILD

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 196, 16 May 1930, Page 4

WOMEN’S SERVICE GUILD

POLICE WOAIEN FAVOURED. At the monthly meeting of the Women’s Service Guild (inc.) yesterday, New Zealand laws and their working were discussed. It was reported that a letter had been sent to the Minister of Education asking for the right of women to be considered for the higher appointments in the Education Department, more particularly where the women students predominate. A letter had been sent to the hospital board urging the necessity for private hospital wards for the reception of suspected mental cases, and that suspected cases be examined in hospital instead of in the police station. An instructive address was given by Airs. Al. Braddon on the work of the policewoman and the necessity for women officers in the larger towns in preventive work among young people, and in the supervision of parks, beaches and the streets. She had been a trained and i fully qualified police officer in London, uniformed and with the power of arrest, she said. She helped the men police in cases where they were less able to officiate, and in every case the policewomen were welcomed as helping to observe the laws. Airs. Braddon was cordially thanked. It was decided that policewomen were urgenlly needed, that every support should be given to their appointment, and that they should he educated women and thoroughly trained by the police authorities.