SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTIONS.

White Ribbon, Volume 17, Issue 203, 18 May 1912, Page 7

SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTIONS.

Dear Sisters, In looking through reports of the School Committee elections, I have been much disappointed to see that so few women have been elected as members of School Committees 1 am afraid our Unions huv* not sufficiently grasped the importance of temperance women being on such local bodies, and it is necessary that intnrest should be created by our members everywhere. It is not too early even now to begin to look around for suitable women for such positions, so that action may be taken in good time, and the names of women candidates for seats on School Committees brought before householders, in oi er that such may he nominated before he householders’ meetings take place. It is difficult to get a person elected who is not well known, and in some instances lists of candidates have been

prepared before the householders meet, and those nominated afterwards in the meeting have had very little chance of election.

I hope that next year Unions will be P r ♦‘pared to do their duty, and that members will see to it that good useful progressive women are nominated as candidates for School Committees.

To leave the matter until a day or two before the meetings are held, is to court defeat, and soon we should be moving to induce the right women to promise to give their help in electing proper persons for the positions which are open to men and women alke. We must create and popularise the sentiment of public duty amongst women.—Yours for service, F. Cole, N.Z. President. Cashmere, May 6th.