Removal of Disabilities.
The matter of the Removal of Women’s Disabilities is, we understand, this year receiving special attention not only from the N.Z. W.C.T.Union, but also from the National Council of the Women of N Z. (to which, of course, the Union is affiliated), and a question of practical importance has arisen. Shall we draw up a Pill asking for the removal of all disabilities, or shall we specialise-take one disability only
and work for its removal ? The latter course is, we believe, by many thought to be ihe wiser, and the sugge te 1 disability is the exclusion of women from seats in Parliament. The executive of the National
Council is, we understand, in correspondence with Mr McNab on the sub ject, and it is probable that he will be asked to take charge of such a Bill. Mr McNab, it will be remembered, has already proved the successful pilot of two Bills which largely affect women, the one equalising the conditions of divorce, and the “Testator’s Family Maintenance,” and should he take charge of a Removal of Disability Bill, we have every confidence of its safe passage.
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White Ribbon, Volume 9, Issue 97, 1 June 1903, Page 7
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