OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
(By Cable.) . -'■' LONDON, February' 22. The report of the ccimmittee dealing with the reorganisation of the Civil Service recommends that women should Do given a status and authority '• equal to men, with equal .minimum., pay .■ana equal increments up to a certain point. The report also recommends that a. well marked-avenue of promotion shoulct be opened up, and that the university men ? s monopoly of administrative post* should disappear. ,v' ':' " • " . BRUSSELS, February 25. Cardinal Merrier has issued a pastoral letter scathingly rebuking society women for indulgence in sensual balls and absurd and audacious garments. He the passion f or-v luxury and pleasure is degrading family" life, and adds: We are falling into a sink of heathen immorality."ROME, February 25. Finding that all warnings against esx treme feminine fashions have not been regarded, Cardinal Ferrari has ordered hi< clergy to refuse the communion of th< sacrament to any women presenting theni< selves in unbecoming attire.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3442, 2 March 1920, Page 21
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158OF INTEREST TO WOMEN. Otago Witness, Issue 3442, 2 March 1920, Page 21
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