Women's Political League.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 20, 23 July 1895, Page 2

Women's Political League.

(Per Press Association). Wanganui, July 22. The following resolutions were carried on Friday last by the Couim'friee of the Wanganui Women's Political League: — (1) That this Committee, while re:oguising the desirableness of a coloniil scale of salaries for public school teachers, protest against the adoption of the s-home drawn up by the New Zealand Educational Insti tute in January, 1895, on the ground that it perpetuates for our female teachers an injustice which r, aims at removing in the case of male teachers, viz, inequality of pay for similar work. This Committee, feeling strongly that it is the duty of the State to set an example of equality of pay for equal work irrespective of sex, prays the Minister of Education to sanction no scheme which fails to recognise this principle. (2) The Committee of the Wanganui Women's Political League, having carefully cousidered th« Bill prepared by the Rescue Society of Auckland for submission to the Hon. the Minister for Justice, and headed " A Bill entitled tne Suppression of Immorality Act, 1895," which has been forwarded for their endorsement, find themselves obliged to enter a protest against its becoming law, — first, because though recognisting the duty of the State to prevent as far as possible the spread of crime and disease, they consider it beyond the power of Parliament to enforce individual morality ; secondly, because they object to the police being endowed with some of the extraordinary power which some of the clauses of this Bill propose to confer upon them ; and thirdly, because they are in considerable doubts as to the benefits derivable from compulsory residence in so-called " reformatories," and in the case of neglected and criminal children they would prefer to see the boarding-out scheme fully tested.