A WOMAN CANDIDATE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1084, 10 April 1913, Page 4

A WOMAN CANDIDATE.

FOR AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL.

Miss Melville, solicitor, who is seeking election to the Auckland City Council, in a statement regarding her candidature, said she would pledge herself to no party or union whatsoever. She was not standing because she considered that present members of the Council had not done their best for the city, but because she considered that the best government and best citizenship required co-operation with men and women of all classes. It was essential for *K e putyjc gpofl that mgu and women should work together. Men and women had different qualifications, and it was important that all available talent and experience should be utilised in the service of the people. “The city,” continued the speaker, “is simply an aggregation pf homes and families. Individual hpmes are conducted by men and women on a partnership basis, in which the woman has a share of responsibility and power, particularly in the. direction of administration pf finances and tbe guidance and control pi children. What is good for tbe home is good for the city full oi homes.” Miss Melville concluded by quoting Burke’s description of the broad base of personal service in tbe cause of good government on which the State rests—a partnership in every virtue and in all per--3 partnership not only between those who (*re living, bpt those who are dead and those who are to be born. It was not possible, she held, to leave women out of a partnership such as this, and the ideal put before them was one that should rouse the aspiraevery w°W |o contribute ip such measiue as she cpuld to the progress and welfare of humanity.