WOMEN'S FRANCHISE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 63, 11 September 1943, Page 10

WOMEN'S FRANCHISE

JUBILEE THANKSGIVING

To celebrate the golden jubilee of the women's franchise in New Zealand a thanksgiving meeting for women will be held at the Plaza Theatre on Sunday, September 19, at 3 p.m. There are to be three notable speakers, Miss Kirk, whose subject will be the Fight for the Franchise, Mrs. Knox Gilmer, whose father, the Rt. Hon. Richard John Seddon was Prime Minister at the time when the Bill was passed and who will speak on the Parliamentary side, and Miss Katherine Ford, who will speak of women's work of the future. All women are invited to this meeting.

At the recent meeting of the Women's Study Circle, held in the Educational Institute Room, "Evening Post" building, Mrs. C. G. Scrimgeour, the speaker for the afternoon, dealt with "Woman's Place in the Scheme of Things." She held the view that woman's rightful place was in the home, and expressed concern about the position women would occupy in the future. She advocated that the economic position of women and children should be assured by family allowance. If this could be obtained it would allow women leisure to cultivate their higher faculties and enable them to take their rightful place with men to bring in a new world order.