WOMEN’S RIGHTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3524, 27 September 1921, Page 17

WOMEN’S RIGHTS.

FURTHER POWER DEMANDED. LONDON, September 10. The question of woman’s place in the Church was debated at the Ecumenical Methodist Conference. Aliss Daisy Davies, an American Episcopalian, said that women raised thousands of dollars for the Church which men administered. The time had come to abolish sex barriers. She asked her hearers to picture a church without women. Airs Tirown, a Primitive Alethodist. said that the ministry too long had considered women as mere money-making machines in bazaars. Mrs Nellie APClunv, a member of tho Alberta Parliament, said she had listen 'd to sermons when the preacher had referred to womanhood almost as a disease which trie Church must do more than smother. The Rev. Thomas Sutherland said that the subordination of womanhood was due to the masculine conception of tlie Deity. He suggested special training for tlie regular induction of deaconesses. BELGIAN SENATE’S DEBATE. LONDON. September 22. The Morning Post’s Brussels correspondent states that the Chamber opposed women’s suffrage. The conflict between the two Houses lasted for weeks. Curiously enough, the Conservatives were the chief supporters ot votes for women. The Liberals and Socialists opposed, declining that the Catholics were trying to regain the majority by means of the priests' influence over women. BRUSSELS, September 22. The Senate, by 59 votes to 44 votes, passed the Women’s Suffrage Bill, affecting provincial elections.