WOMEN IN LEGISLATURE
Concerning present-day conditions in India Mrs. M. Cousins, Mus.Bac, writes to a friend in Wellington saying that the Indian women have attainted a new era in administrative opportunities. Fifty reserved seats in the new constitution must be filled by women in the elections next February, and more women may he elected for general seats. The writer adds: "Isn't it remarkable, though in principle-itl is really communal, for the seats will be awarded to different sects and religions, so many to Moslems,- so,' many to Sikhs and Hindus, and a number to Christians, and, I presume, to outcasts." Mrs. Cousins is very. well known in India. She tells her friend that she may be elected president of the AllIndia Women's Conference this year. The, writer also says she is ■ astounded at the advance the Indian women are, making since the time when she (Mrs. j Cousins) was an inspector of schools in the Punjab from 1918 to 1928. She i concludes by asking: "What are Newj Zealand people doing? Here is another 'heathen country' giving the white folk I a lead. It .seems as if New Zealand women are practically banned from, the Parliament of their own country."'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1936, Page 17
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