WOMEN COUNCILLORS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17027, 28 April 1923, Page 7

WOMEN COUNCILLORS.

' i I The Hon Mark Cohen. Af.L.C., who ! ; has always been an advocate of women’s j | rights, has been urging that Dunedin j should follow th e example of other centres by electing women, to the City Council. Writing in the ' Otago Daily Times’’ in advocacy of the candidature of Mr* I/eech, Mr Cohen says : It. could not be asu'd that by endorsing her candidature thev were taking a. leap in t-he dark, for the presence of women on the City Councils • °f other centres has been welcomed, and in all case* thev have ‘ made good." If Mayor Crimson, of Auckland. had been sounded he would have doubtless replied that in Councillor Alelville (a member of the legal profession) he has an energetic and capable lieutenant, whose knowledge of political economy and of finance is equal to that of any of her mal e col- ! league*, while in Mrs M'Guire, who | concerns herself largely with social | questions, he has a conscientious I humanitarian. If you go to Welling--1 ton, the testimony of Sir John Luke j and Mr R. A. Wright (the present : Mayor) would unquestionably be that j Mrs M’Vicar was an invaluable helper : in bringing to fruition the scheme for j giving Wellington its pure milk *od | ply. which has been such a conspicuous | success. And. lastly, at the ChristI church City Council table, there sits ! Airs M’Combs, wife of the Labour • member for Lyttelton, and herself a ! distinguished graduate of the New | Zealand University—a lady with pro ! nounced political proclivities. which • are distasteful to some folk, but who i can hold her own with her male colj leagues in any phase of civic adminis- ' tration and is not even unacquainted j with the mysteries of “ high finance.’ That she has a considerable following in the Cathedral City is a recognised ; fact, and there are amonc her admirer* ! those who declare that if she is am- ■ bitions she may yet. become Chief • Magistrate of thq,t citv and sit in the House of Representatives when it shall please Parliament to adopt pro- | port ion a 1 representation as the onlv : equitable, and scientific method of ob- ■ tain in g a true reflex of the people’s ; will in respect to representation.”