WOMEN IN PUBLIC LIFE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 276, 16 August 1920, Page 2

WOMEN IN PUBLIC LIFE

OPEN LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER. The following is an open letter sent Iqr the Women's National Council (Wellington branch) to the Prime Minister, and to the members of the Cabinet: "The members of the Women s :\ationn. Council (Wellington branch) wish to span yon a deputation because we are: ti-.d these are becoming numerous a'^.d "f'"o- - We have therefore to . n PP™ f J®( you by letter about a very luportant matter-the appointment of suitable women to all public boards, commissions, and official' positions (e.g., !? Magistrate's Courts) where mat.cis affect ing tho welfare, of women and children cvme under review. , "The Board of Trade, the anti-jiTofitet-r----ing tribunals, the Education Department, unci Magistrate's Courts, are. some of these, and this council is of opinion that women are badly needed in all thee nUeefi In England there is haidlj a commission or board »PPOiijW to to with social and domestic matters t lat does not includo women m its I^ 0 ". 1 ". 1 ' Women, too, are there found in tho highest administrative P<» ltlon „ s v " ( „ verseTs the'•case" and'we' hope that this i, Tot beeanso New. Zealnnd women an regarded as of inferior calibre. "Again you yourself, sir, were once resaving that the lugh cost of living hits women hard. Reiving on these on imentsand on the generous way in which you championed the women s P-r----liamcntnry Wt? Erfcnsum Bill, we fel n :Uon as 5 possible tO t tho trTssr-x'Sii" > never bo forgotten in Hioh rjlucs. —(Signed) N. E. Coad (presideni), .\nna P. Stout, Clara Chapman, 1? Maeill ("on, secretary). ■ P S.—Since sending this leher out wo have learned through the l ro=s that a woman supervisor of girls' education .lias been appointed: but whether this isa high administrative or merely a subordinate office, we are unable to =.i>. N.E.C.