NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
Dunedin, May 6.
At yesterday afternoon's sitting of the National Council'of Women, Mrs. Wells introduced a discussion on the question of prison reform, as an outcome of which it was resolved:—(l) That all sentences for serious offences should be decided as to duration by reform of the criminal, and limited by a maximum penalty attached to the crime. (2) That the Council urge the nesd of the suppression of militarism in the prison system, (3) That women j visiting justices be appointed. In the evening, Miss Henderson read a-paper on the ethics of wage earning, in which she advocated in all cases where men and women were engaged in the same work that an equal wage be paid for equal work. The Council adopted a resolution endorsing this view.
A paper by Mrs. Cotton on domestic service advocated better treatment at bhe hands of mistresses.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 95, 7 May 1900, Page 2
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