WOMEN MAGISTRATES.
FIRST SEVEN APPOINTED. LONDON, Dec. 23. In view of the coming into force of the Sox Disqualification Removal Act, by which women will be eligible to act as magistrates, the Lord Chancellor has selected seven women having a wide acquaintance with the careers of their countrywomen to assist him in making appointment.?.
These seven women — namely, the Marchionesses of Crewe and Londonderry, Mesdame.* Lloyd George, Humphrey Ward, and Sydney Webb, and Misses Elizabeth Haldane and Gertrude Tuckerwill themselves become the first women magistrates.
As ho magisterial bench is at present full, only a few others will be appoin* in the near future, chiefly for the children's courts, but thereafter the claims of women will be considered equally with men.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17361, 7 January 1920, Page 7
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