NEW SOCIET Y OF WOMEN. [By Telegraph.] [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION] Auckland. 25th August.
The SO seoeders from the Women's Political League held a meeting to-day, when there were 60 women present. It was decided to form the Auckland Woman's Political Reform League, the objects being the education and ponsol idation of the f emalo vote in the common interest of labour, temperanoo and moral reform, and to inouloate the doctrine that moral and industrial wealth is the true standard of individual and national greatnesß ; to socuro to the workers of both sexes equal wage for equal servioe ; to secure the right to the majority of electors who record their votes to control the sale of alcoholic liquors : to maintain and improve the system of free and compulsory education ; to secure justice for women by equal laws, with one moral statutory code for both sexes. Mrs. Kerr was elected President.
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Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 49, 27 August 1894, Page 4
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149NEW SOCIETY OF WOMEN. [By Telegraph.] [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION] Auckland. 25th August. Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 49, 27 August 1894, Page 4
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