WOMEN IN COURTS

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 253, 23 February 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

WOMEN IN COURTS

An excellent sample of Government departments in the matter of the release of men of military age is afforded by the record of the officers of the Supreme Court of Judicature, as related by the Lord Chancellor in the Hous\j of Lords. lx>rd Buckmaster said at the outbreak of the war there were 270 clerks and 200 ushers and messengers employed. Of the latter class every man eligible was serving. In regard to the clerical staff, S3 had joined and 1?.0 were over military age. Of the 4.") of military age who had not joined, 18 had been rejected. 12 had been placed in €?, class, and 12 in Bl class. Three or four were going as soon as called up. There were only two left, and they were both over ">G years of age and regarded as indispensable. He maintained it was impossible to find a finer record in any Government department.

'Lord Buckmaster mentioned that he had caused to be introduced ten women, which he understood was absolutely without a precedent in the history of the Law Courts, excepting what happened in the reign of Charlea 11., when a lady named Miss Eleanor Gwynn was appointed to a highly paid but not arduous post In conneo tion with the .administration of the country.