NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.
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Dunedin, Sunday. • At yesterday afternoon's sitting of the National Council of Women, Mrs. Wells introduced a discussion on the question of prison I reform, as the outcome of which it was re- | solved (1) that all sentences for serious ofI fences should be decided as to duration by j tho reform of the criminal and limited by ' the maximum penalty attached tc the crime; (2) that the Council urge the need for tho suppression of militarism in the prisons system ; (3) that women visiting justices be appointed. ! In the evening Miss Henderson read a ! paper on the ethics of wage-earning, in which she advocated in all cases where men and women are engaged in the same work an equal wage should bo paid for equal work. The Council adopted a resolution endorsing this view. A paper by Mrs. Cotton on domestic serj vice advocated the claims of servants to , just and considerate treatment at the bands I of mistresses.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11365, 7 May 1900, Page 5
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