STORY OF A RICH UNCLE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 86, 10 April 1924, Page 9

STORY OF A RICH UNCLE

THE WOMEN'S VOTE.

(rROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, 19th February. Miss W. L. Boyd-Smith, foVmerly' Professor Home Science in Otago University, addressed the Harpenden branch of the National Council of Women,- on "Activities of Women in New Zealand." She told of the geographical conditions, the work of the parly.settlers, the politics of the country, and something of her work while at tlie University, with a view to the members being able to judge of the limitations and advantages existing there.. Proportional representation, she maintained, was one oi the things that English women should press for. What dinerence had the women's vote made to i>'ew Zealand? The wife of an early English settler connected with political iiircles there told Miss Boys-Smith that she- thought it had made little difference," e'xeept' to double ' tlie vote, and, therefore, to double the "ignorance vote^" It had made one difference on the matter of temperance. A working woman, asked the same question,' said,.that it had*made an enormous difference, and it- would make more shortly, because they were getting the people better educated as.to-what was wanted and to know,the way to push for what they wanted. On the question of domestic help, the lecturer remarked that in' New Zealand it was necessary .to learn to dp without maids; women had to do their own work out there, and not mind what they did;