WOMEN’S DEMANDS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 65, 11 September 1924, Page 2

WOMEN’S DEMANDS

DEPUTATION To THE PREMIER. Per Press Association. Wellington, September 11. “I think you can make up your minds on this, that the Non - Zealand Parliament will not see any injustice done to the women of the country, 1 can say that right away.” So said Mr Massey to a cKeputation from the National Council of Women which requested that there should be no inequality between men and women ; that women should not. he debarred by sex from occupying any civil position, such as Justices of the Peace.; that they should also he able to serve on juries and'be given equal rights of guardianship over children as men. The deputation also urged the establishment of women patrols. Mr Massey assured the deputation that its representations would not; he lost ou the Government. So far as women patrols were concerned, he was quite convinced that there was necessity for something more drastic in the way. of punishment for those who assaulted! children. If it depended on him it would be much more drastic than it had ever been. yet.