WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12617, 30 November 1926, Page 4

WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING

The news service of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship has the following notes about women in different countries:—League of Nations.—Seven women attended the reoent Assembly of the League as substitute delegates or experts, namely: Miss Forchhanimer. of Denmark; Dr Gertrude Baumer, Germany; Dame Edith Lyttelton, Great Britain; Miss Freda Bage, Australia; Mrs Larsen Jahn, Norway; Mrs Wicksell, Sweden; and Mile. Vacaresco, Rumania. Australia.—Mrs Winifred Keik, 8.A., 8.D., is the first woman in Australia to be appointed minister of an evangelical church, having been appointed pastor of the Congregational Church at Colonel Light Gardens, South Australia. Cuba. —A recent congress of Mayors held at Havana passed a resolution recommending congress to extend equal rights to women. Germany Dr Anna Schulz is the first woman barrister to act as counsel in a sensational murder case at Frankfurt, and was successful in getting the sentence of the woman defendant considerably reduced. Great Britain— Dame Caroline Bridgeman is the first woman to act as chairman of the National Unionist Association conference, and will pieside over the 2000 delegates. India.—Last May the Government >f India passed orders making it possible for women to sit in the nine Legislative Councils, and the Legislative Council of Madras has now passed a resolution making women eligible for election to that council. They will therefore be eligible to take part in the elections in November. Japan.—The Government has ratified the convention of the first International Labour Conference of 1919, fixing the minimum age for child Vjrkers at fourteen, with certain concessions. Russia.—Mm. Kollontay. the Soviet representative at Oslo, lias been appointed to act as Soviet representative in Mexico. United States of America.—Mrs Florence Stukel is game warden in Minnesota, and scours the country from her oneroom log cabin with one woman companion and a dog.