Women Police Must Be 100 Per Cent.
SAYS MISS C. E. KIRK, J.P. 1 ‘ I am pleased that at least women police are to be an accomplished fact in New Zealand,” said Miss C. E. Kirk, J.P., of Wellington, past Dominion president of the National Council of Women, addressing a women’s meeting in Palmerston North yesterday. Continuing, Miss Kirk remarked that over 40 years ago the W.C.T.U. began the spade work, and had continued—not to say ploughing. Now that this reform was well within their grasp the women needed to do something more than wait. They must look round in their communities for suitable women to make application, for police women may be watched and criticised. “I have a tremendous admiration for our police force, but you cannot expect in a large body to have them all 100 per cent. We want the women to be 100 per cent, and every help given to them to receive the same training as tho men so that they may equal if not surpass the men,” she added before urging those present to help in every way to find the right women to apply to get their training.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 114, 17 May 1938, Page 8
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