WOMEN'S FRANCHISE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1130, 27 October 1893, Page 18

WOMEN'S FRANCHISE.

A POLITICAL PLATPOEM. By Telegraph. —Press Association. Dunedin, October 23. The Women's Franchise League Committee will submit the following platform : —(1) To secure justice to women by the enactment of equitable laws affecting marriage, divorce, custody of children, injury to person, and social vice; (2) the general improvement of the social condition of women, and the more equitable adjustment of women's wages, together with compulsory arbitration as a means of settling industrial disputes and preventing strikes ; (3) the appointment of women on Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards as {visitors and inspectors of lunatic asylums, industrial schools, and other public institutions, and the employment of women as factory inspectors, truant officers, and on committees affecting sanitation; (4) the abolition of the totalisator, the enactment of more stringent laws for the suppression of gambling and against eruelty to animals under the name of sport'; (5) the maintenance of the present system of free and compulsory education; (6) to secure the right of the majority of the electors who record votes to control or abolish the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages; (7) to recognise no political party, but to give support to men with the best reputation for integrity of character, who will pledge themselves to support this platform.