WOMEN IN COUNCIL
THE AMERICAN CONVENTION
MARRIED WOMEN AND NATIONALITY.
Press Association —By Telegraph-^-Copyrigbt. WASHINGTON, May 7. The Australian delegation to the International Council of Women has cabled congratulations to the British House of Commons on its unanimous acceptance or the principle that women should have the right to retain or change their nationality on marriage. The delegation moreover expressed a desire to see Australia the first dominion to follow this important vital step. Miss Board, who is a member of the Educational Committee, 1 is trying to obtain some definite opinion from the Council concerning methods of dealing with abnormal mid mentally deficient children. The Australian delegation is against the suggestion that the Council should advise women to enter different political parties, because the International Council, and all national councils, being non-party and nonpolitical organisations, they feel that the council should not offer any suggestion tending to help party systems. It is probable that the Laws Committee will frame a resolution asking that the one concerning the nationality of married women be referred to the League of Nations, deeming the problem so important us to call for the opinion of eminent judicial authorities.—A. and N.Z.’ Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19475, 9 May 1925, Page 9
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