Women First

NZ Truth, Issue 1192, 4 October 1928, Page 6

Women First

ONE of the first Wellington presidents of the National Council of

Women is Miss Maude England, whose little home m Molesworth Street has, incidentally, a treasure-house of a library at which one can meet the best of the modern philosophies.

A . lady of strong ideas and strong opinions is Miss England, and the body which she , represented "as president, and still represents as a vice-president, has a dangerous look m its, eye when confronting any one of the miany abuses and iniquities which women are called upon to endure.

The National Council started m suffrage days and had a big part m the fight for the New Zealand woman's vote — the result of which is well known.

In France and m other countries where women are still politically "put upon," the council is still strenuously pursuing its goal of equal rights.

The council is a doughty fighter against the White Slave Traffic, and the Wellington branch has set its heart on women police officers, for the purpose of patrolling parks and replacing the men m all cases where women and. children are concerned.

* Miss England .is slender, whitehaired, a quick, interesting talker and a thoroughly vital force m the welfare work of to-day. v