WOMEN MAGISTRATES
FIRST SEVEN APPOINTED. LONDON, Dec. 23. In view of the coming into force of tho Sex Disqualification Removal Act, by which women will be eligible to not as magistrates, the Lord Chancellor lias selected seven women having a wide acquaintance with the careers of their country women, to assist him in making 'appointments. These seven women, namely, the Marchionesses of Crewe and Londonderry, Mesdames Lloyd George, Humphry Ward, and Sidney Webb, and Misses Eligabeth Haldane and Gertrude Tucker—will themselves become the first women magistrates. As the magisterial bench is at present full, only a few otliers will ho appointed in the near future, chiefly for the children’s courts, but thereafter the claims of women will be considered equally with. men.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1920, Page 3
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