Women on Charitable Aid Boards.

White Ribbon, Volume 4, Issue 42, 1 December 1898, Page 7

Women on Charitable Aid Boards.

We are glad to chronicle the fact that Mrs Hiack, one of the lady nominees to the Canterbury Charitable Aid Hoard, has In-en elected to represent the Selwyn County Council on that Hoard. We were hoping that Mrs Wells, the other lady nominee, would also have l»een elected, not onlv for the useful work she might have done, out for Mrs Black’s sake, who, at present, is the only woman member. Mrs Hiack, however, has already attended a meeting of th* Hoard, and liears tribute to the extremely courteous manner in which she war received by the members, so ♦hat any feeling of discomfort she may have had regarding her position on the Hoard has vanished. I Ins is as it should be, and it is only reasonable to forecast that lx foie n« xt year much of the absurd prejudice which still exists concerning women’s work in this direction will have vanished, and several other lady members will lie elected.