“WOMEN: TREMBLE AND OBEY!”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 153, 19 September 1927, Page 12

“WOMEN: TREMBLE AND OBEY!”

CHINESE ORDINANCE AGAINST MODERN FASHIONS Chinese women are not to be allow d to adopt Western customs. While, throughout the Celestial Empire, Nortliists and Southists, Mukdenites and Cantonists, Communists. Imperialists, and Nationalists are fighting each other, the prefect of the Pekin police has found time, according to a message received from the capital of China, to issue a stern warning to "ultra-modern women.” He has done so at the instigation of Chinese feminists. He forbids short hair, short skirts, and decollete gowns, and threatens those who do not obey his edict with "severe punishment.” “On several occasions,” the warning goes on, “ultra-modern women have disobeyed the law and the customs of the country. Young students and ladies of high society are the chief offenders. If this state of affairs is allowed to continue, how can the morality of the country be preserved? If, therefore, the police see any women in extravagant costumes, they will arrest them at once, and they will be severely punished. Let the feminine world tremble and obey!”

Open-air Class-rooms.— At the infant school at New Plymouth this morning, the Minister of Education, the Hon. R. A. Wright, formally opened the first open-air class-room built in the North Island. He stated that it was the department's intention to go on with tlse policy of building similar class-rooms. Schoolboy’s Arm Broken.—Eric Ockleston, aged 16, a pupil of the Auckland Boys’ Grammar School, broke his arm during the dinner-hour recess today. He was exercising in the gym nasi u day. He was exercising in the gymnasium when he slipped and fell to the floor. His home is at Hobsonville.