TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4014, 14 June 1920, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association..) WHAT WOMEN WANT. Chrisohtirch, June 13. At a meeting attended mostly by women, and held in the Trades Hall last night, tlie following motion was parried:—"T]haTT this meeting of Ghristchurch citizens is of opinion that women should receive equal pay for equal work, and in the case of the cost of living bonus being arranged, they should receive it in full. It also asks that the next session of Parliament shall legislate in tlie direction of a higher wage for New Zealand women." A motion was also carried demanding the appointment of a woman representative of the Arbitration Court. UPRBME COURT SENTENCES. Auskland, June 13. In the Supreme Court to-day George Kelly, guilty of an indecent assault on a child, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment with hard labour. Alfred Hill, for an assault on a male, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonement with hard labour, to be followed by four years' reformative treatment. Joseph Varela, for an indecent act, committed on a, little girl, was ordered to undergo four years' reformative treatment. Alfred John Murdoch was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour and three years' reformative treatment, and Charles Niven !■ four years' reformative treatment, for breaking and entering and assault with intent to commit a theft.