CONVENTION OF WOMEN.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 5219, 8 March 1904, Page 3

CONVENTION OF WOMEN.

PUESS ASSOCIATION. BLENHEIM, March 7. At to-day's sitting of the W.C.T.TJ. Convention, resolutions were passed affirming the desirability of removing the disabilities ot women; of repealing the Contagious Diseases Act; of providing hospital accommodation for certain diseases; of urging the Premier to introduce a Bill making tho age of protection 31 years; of fining guardians whose children are found in the streets after certain hours; of tho abolition of party government in New Zealand, and the election of members of the Cabinet by the House of Representatives; of the r*V>HHon of the totalizator; of applying Parliamentary procedure to local government, and of women occupying seats on all local bodies. The convention protested strongly against the employment of barmaids in hotels, and against the tone of levity in which the Bill for the abolition of barmaids was debated last session. Resolutions wore passed deprecating tho inadequate sentences inflicted on persons found guilty of gross cruelty to children, and in favour of the referendum on the question of Bible reading in schools.