COUNCIL OF WOMEN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20039, 4 March 1927, Page 8

COUNCIL OF WOMEN.

CONFERENCE AT CHRISTCHURCH. THE CONCLUDING BUSINESS. (Special to Daily Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 3. The annual conference of the National Council of Women of New Zealand was concluded to-day. Remits were carried as follows: — That the council urge the Government to appoint women police with the same status as men, and protest against the registering of women electors only, instead of entering their occupations as in the case of men electors; also to ask that when a census is taken women, including wives, should have personal schedules. That the principle of equal pay for women for equal work in every department be recognised by the Government, making salary and promotion depend on ability and experience, not on sex. That the higher positions in the primary schools of the Dominion be open to qualified applicants of both sexes, and thatwomen teachers be not debarred as at present from those positions. That the Government be urged to bring into effect an Act which provides that the Legislative Council should be elective. The following Dominion officers were lected for the ensuing two years:—President, Mrs C. A. Fraser (Christchurch); secretary, Miss H. K. Lovell Smith (Christchurch); treasurer, Miss S. E. Jackson, J.P. (Auckland).