OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1935, Page 17

OBITUARY

MISS' KATE A. MILLS

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, January 12. The death is announced of Miss Kate Alice Mills',' eldest daughter of' Sir James Mills. The late Miss Mills c:une to London from Dunedin about twenty years ago and took up the work of a deaconess. For fifteen years she had belonged to a sisterhood working among the poor of Rochester, Chatham, and Gillingham, under She had been ill for a long time and during the last six months had been in a nursing-home in London. The funeral was at'Ddrman's Land, Surrey, where Miss Mills' had lived during the last few years' of 'her life., ' *

WOMEN .POLICE FOR .PARIS

A municipal councillor- has formally proposed that* Paris should have women police, arid is confident we shall soon see them on their beats. ; .•'•■■ :

The councillor is M. Arinand Massard, and as he is also prseiderit of the French Olyhipic Committee,, it': is riot surprising that he envisages muscular recruits. He already foresees the fair section Of the Paris police in sports" competition with foreign policewomen, and. need go no further than' London to; find opposition^.'.- :'■ ■ : ; -'..';';"'

It would be wrong to condemn the idea merely because of its novelty. Women police' in London have' given most valuable service. Even the music halls are reconciled to London's.. women in, blue, ri the early days, .-.no programme was supposed to be complete without a "hit" at. them. Since those days,, male, legislators 'have frequently praised" women police.' But it is a moot point whether i"femmes agents" would survive =the sharp blades the satirists, ofrParis flourish.* 'The pretty policewoman might be accused of provoking crime, since for many she might rob arrest, of at least some: of Its terrors.. .:...' . :.-. .."..' •".•C