COUNCIL OF WOMEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22198, 27 August 1935, Page 3

COUNCIL OF WOMEN

REMITS FOR CONFERENCE MANY SUGGESTED REFORMS Remits to be submitted at the Dominion conference of the National Council of Women to be held this year occupied the main portion of the business at the monthly meeting of the Auckland branch last evening. The president, Miss B. Carnaehan, presided. Among the remits referring to education matters was one which asked the Government to repeal the legislation dealing with the dismissal of married women teachers. Another remit stated that on general educational and social grounds the legislation excluding five-year-old children from State schools should be repealed. Matters of a social nature were included in many of the remits. One suggested that the Government should be asked to consider the introduction of a compulsory contributory national provident scheme to enable contributors, on attaining: the age of 60. to retire on an adequate pension. The Family Allowance Act was referred to in a remit which suggested that the Government should be urged to use the existing machinery of the Act to facilitate provision of maintenance allowances for all children of the family, and for the mother to act as keeper of the home and family, wherever the family wage-earner's capacity was inadequate for the needs of that family and its mother. The remit also asked that such allowances should be payable to the mother of the family. Matters dealing with unemployment and taxation were included in five remits. among which was one asking that all women domestic workers should pay th.' unemployment tax and another asking that unemployment relief should bo available to all citizens irrespective of sex. In tlvo assessing of unemployment tax another remit asked that the Government should extend the exemption of £oo for women to earned income as well as to unearned income. With the addition of an amendment to the lastnamed remit that all incomes, earned or unearned, up to £oo, should be exempt, all the remits were passed. A request was received from the re-centlv-formed League of Health of New Zealand Youth asking that the council should co-operate with the league and send a representative to its meetings. It was agreed that this should be done.