NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
Napier, last night.
At the meetings of the National Council of the Women of New Zealand to-day the following resolutions were carried “ That the provisions affecting district high schools should be established for the benefit of children throughout the colonies ” ; “ this Council notes with delight the expressed intention of the Government to proceed immediately with tbe erection of a home for deficient childron ” ; “ seeing that in every other respect the law holds girls under the age of 21 to be minors, and unable to enter into the marriage contract without the consent of their parents, this Council consideis that the age of consent should be raised to 21 years ” ; “ that the National Council feels that it is urgently necessary that the Public Heakh Hospital and Charitable Aid Acts be amended so as to make provision for the establishment of special, wards for the admission of parents sufferinn from veneroal disease and voluntarily presenting themselves for treatment ’ ; “ that this Council gratefully recognises that the steps that the Government has already taken in establishing wards for the accommodation of patients suffering from delirum tremens, and urges that similar provision should be made for cases of lunacy/affa extended to all large centres of population: v It was further resolved, “That the Executive be instructed to appoint a deputation. to. .wait upon the Acting-Premier aiid members of both Houses and enter a strong protest against the continued delay of the repeal of the C.D. Aots"; "that whereas the liquor traffic is declared on undisputed authority to he the cause of much misery, much vice, and much crime," therefore this National Council of Women pledges itself on humanitarian grounds to do all in its power to discountenance the manufacture, importation and sale of alcoholic liquors ” ; “ that this Council approach the Minister of Education with a view tc having scientific instruction in the nature of alcohol and the effects on human system given iq the children in oar State C inin **
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 414, 13 May 1902, Page 3
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