WOMEN IN COUNCIL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 4 September 1925, Page 5

WOMEN IN COUNCIL.

SOCIAL MATTERS DEALT WITH. IJJY TBI.KGRAPH- —PRESS ASSOCIATION ' HAMILTON, Sept. 3. The National .Council of Women opened its business session under the presidency of Miss A". Kane, who gave a lengthy report oh the quinquennial conference at Washington, and who also visited England. -.■■■■ ■ , . The annual report dealt with tno activities of the council during the year, which showed that-good work had been accomplished, in many directions. Remits were adopted that the Government he asked to continue to press for reciprocity in the payment of- old i.ge jiensions •between. -New Zealand and other parts "of the Empire; xhat tlie Government be urged to inf.r.bdoc'O a Bill in the terins of the Act recently bassed by ’-tlfe British ' Parliament, whereby women: marrying aliens; may choose their nationality ; that, as in other countries, the work of. Women justices' of the peace, women red u’mes, •and women police has proved, beneficial, women should be. appointed to. simihar oositions in New Zealand; that the council continue to press for the introduction into Parliament of a sex disqualification removal ‘.Bilp similar W> that passed by the British Parliament; that the Government be asked to promote a Bill to enable-a measure to become law after it lias been three times oassed hA’ the lower; House,, even, though rejected a third time by the ~.pper House. ’ .. :