WOMEN'S RIGHTS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 139, 9 December 1918, Page 9

WOMEN'S RIGHTS

[ TO THE EDITOB. ■ Sir, —It behoves the women of New Zealand to note carefully the division list on Mr. M'Combs's amendment, which was, in the direction of making women eligible as members of Parliament, also that the Legislative Council has thrown out the amendment. At this juncture, when women's services are everywhere so much in demand, these two things are worth remembering :— 1. That in ons breath the New Zealand women have been asked to do voluntarily the most difficult and dangerous work, and that almost in the next, our "Democratic" Cabinet —with two exceptions—have voted against giving them equal rights of citizenship. ■ 2. That if this right has been conceded to the women of England and Now South Wales, surely the New . Zealand women deserve the same recognition, and not the slur ■which has been cast on them by our Cabinet and our Legislative Council. Every women's Association—including the Women's Political Organisations, should have these division fists placed in a conspicuous place on the walls of its meeting place, and should refer to them when the next general electron comes along.—l am, etc., N.-E. COAD. sth December.