WOMEN POLICE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2942, 30 November 1916, Page 2

WOMEN POLICE

FAVOURED BY AN EDUCATION BOARD. By Telegraph—Press Association.. • Auckland, November 29. Tho Education Board to-day resolved to urgently recommend to tho Department of Justice tho appointment of women police for protective work among girls and women. Mrs. Luke and party motored out to Trcntham yesterday to interview Colonel Potter with regard to the ar-. rangcmciits to be made for the Christmas dinner for our troops in camp at Trent-ham. The dinner will take place, at a date to be BoTified later, some timo in the week preceding Christmas Day. Mrs. Luke appeals to the people of tho country districts for gifts of young lamb, and lettuces and salad garnishes will also be most acceptable. Last year the response made by our farmers to the' Mayoress's appeal was both prompt and generous. The girls of the Government Printing Staff are organising concert parties for street shows on Friday, and on Saturday they will be selling flowers in the Basin Reserve. A beautiful collection of sweet pea blooms arc coming from Hawke's Bav for the Kelburn Parade stall." Mrs. Foole, lion, treasurer Wellington' Women's Committee Red Cross, acknowledges with thanks the following:—Mrs. A. (per Mrs. Fitchett), 55.; Mrs. L. Blundell, £1: Miss C. Richardson, £1: Pukeroa Red Cross, £9 12s. 2d.; Mrs. Morlcy, 2s. Gd.: H.H., £2; Waiwetu Golf Club, £5 15s. 6d.; Mr. S". Eichelbaum, 10s.; Mrs. Porter, 55.; Miss Blytb, 2s. 6d.j Hatuma district, £6; Mr. W. Bcthunc, £I.os. Gd. The following motion,, will be moved at the next meeting of the Napier Chamber of Commerce (says our special correspondent) :—That this chamber urge the Government, as a- preliminary step indicative of our desire to support the British Empire to tho utmost degree, to register every woman under forty-five years of age in the Dominion with a view to their being trained for industrial-pursuits should that become necessary.