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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 113, 16 May 1918, Page 6

Speaking of the Women s Council in Auckland recently. Miss Melville said :—The objection some women had to 'taking part in politics would have to be abandoned if women were to' take their proper place in. the community. They must be educated to understand that they were -just as important to the country as the men. rnd that then- political power should be the same. The women's societies should get into touch so that no overlapping took place. In speaking on the same question, iMiss 'Griffin, (M.A., said Hhe biggest thing before the National Council was to study and think and find put what other countries had done in women's questions. It was hoped* to hold a whole day's conference, when every- organisation could' "have ten minutes in which to state what they were trying to do. The Electoral Act would have to be changed so that women could sit in Parliament, and the whole oitestion of domestic help in homes would i.ve to be gone into in the near future.afl4 $ solution, looked 1 for.