PROTECTION OF WOMEN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 77, 27 March 1912, Page 5

PROTECTION OF WOMEN.

MORE LEGISLATION WANTED. (Per Press Association.) CHristchu/elf; Marhh 26X s Co-operation with other similar so cicties and more active propaganda are the lines that will be followed ic tiie coming year by the Society for the Protection of Women and Children vvnich will hold its annual meeting or. Thursday afternoon. The Society n not discouraged with its work, but i. desires to prevent a great deal of whai is unsatisfactory in the conditions oi distressed women and children. The directions in which legislative reform are desired was explained ti a “Star” reporter by Mrs. E. Lissa man a me inner of the committee. Mn Xjissaman stated that strong endeavours would be made to abolish, the six months' time-limit in which charges had to be laid for offences against girls of tender years. She said that a mother might not know of her daughter’s misfortune until the time had elapsed. Cases of the Lind were on record. An indefinite time for laymt the information could not prejudu the. man, for the greater the lapse o, time tne more difficult would be the task of proving the offence, and till man always had a jury to try him A widening of the law relating ti consanguinity was also urgently need ed, to prevent uncles and aunts iron marrying niece's and nephews, and step mothers and stepfathers fiom mat lying their children. A dreadful cast had occurred in Christchurch. A widow with two daughters, one of whom had been committed to a home, had married again and had five children by the second marriage. One of the first daughters had left the home at the age of twenty-one yeais, and the stepfather hud rim olf with hex u-fc man and wife to Sydney, for there was no law to prevent it.