WOMEN MAGISTRATES
PROPOSAL DISCUSSED FEW SAID TO BE ELIGIBLE (United Preen Asocial ion! WELLINGTON, 13th April. The contention that it would be in the interests of the community generally, and women and children in particular, if the Government appointed women magistrates and more women justices of the peace, ancl expedited the appointment of women police, was advanced in a remit placed before the annual confei'ence of the New Zealand Labour Party to-day.
The committee to which the remit was referred, reported that it understood there was nothing to prevent women being appointed as magistrates, but that few were eligible, as few entered the legal profession. It recommended that more women take up this profession, and that there be always at least one woman on the Bench in children’s cases.
In view of the statement made to the conference by the Minister in charge of the Police Department, Hon. P. Fraser, that applications were now being called, the committee had no recommendation to make relating to the appointment of women police.
The conference adopted the committee’s report.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 15 April 1939, Page 5
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