WORK FOR WOMEN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 89, 15 December 1913, Page 4

WORK FOR WOMEN.

The news from Switzerland thai the women of Xeuchatel have Formed a corps of volunteer police with the objeot of combatting social evils, will, tlie "Lyttelton Times" thinks, cheer many earnest workers in New Zealand. Kor many years past certain workers For social reform have increasingly urged the women of Christchuroh io mak'c a similar move, 'nit se Far without success. As a step iii this direction it has keen suggested that a woman should he appointed probationer officer, either under the Juvenile Offenders Act or the First Offenders Act. Such an officer, the "Times" says, need jio! wear a uniform or figure much in public, hut there are a number of spheres in which she could

do useful work. Women have taken a prominent place in the fight against social evils. Women like Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House, Chicago, for instance, have been in the very forefront of such social service, and arc still there doing work of incalculable value. Systematic effort is needed, effort calling for self-sacrifice and courage, hut it would lie hard to conceive any work of more vital importance or more fruitful in promise of success.