WOMEN'S PROTEST.

Grey River Argus, 13 October 1917, Page 3

WOMEN'S PROTEST.

DANGERS OF HASTY LEGISLATION. CHRISTCHURCH, October 12. A largely attended meeting of women to-day carried a resolution protesting against the a::enipt to reenact the CD. Act under the guise of the Social Hygiene Bill. Dr. Blaekiuore, who was one of the chief speakers, in the course of his condemnation . of the Bill, remarked that no other country in the world suffered so much, from hasty and illconsidered legislation as New Zealand. I A further resolution was carried to 'the effect that every facility should Ibe given for free and voluntary treatment of sufferers from venereal disease, urging the establishment of farm colonies for persons suffering from such disease and raising the age of consent, also the employment of women police and, instruction in moral education.