NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 102, 16 May 1901, Page 2

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.

PHR PRfSS ASSOCIATION. Warqakui, May 15. The Women's National Council after an animatei disrussi >n of a pap»r on revenue and 'iquor traffic, the following with three disse'tirnl • i-i c-.i'h r-H'-o. (!) That t!.<! 1 if or tr.itlin is declared on Mit'oii'y tote the causa of rnu.'f: n isoiy, inncli vice, and much (rime, tl>oiv l- i-o the Nat'onal Council of Women pledges itself on hurnani'ariirj grounds to do all in jtu power (o discountenance the manufacture, importation and sale of alcoholic liquors, (2) Thit this Council re-affirms the gieat democratic principle of government by a majority on all questions. The Mowing resolution was carried unanimously, "That this Council approach the Minister for Education with a view to having scientific instruction in the nature of alcohol and its effects on the human bdy givon to the children in our pubi c schools. A resolution wis passed deploring the ravages cf mil taiism and expressing an opinion that difficulties between nations were always (apaMe of & peaceable (-e'thmeot, and h'.artily welcoming the e'tiblishment of the International Court of Arbitrat : on. At the afternoon session it was resolve 1 "That the solo qualification for an old age pension be 35 years' render ce, and a certified age of 65 years, al*o that the amount be increased to ten shi lings a wetk." It was a'so resolve! that " AU sentences for serious offences should be decidod as to duration by the reform of rhe criminal; that women visiting justices ba appointed to our prisons * that capital punishmtnt be abolished.)*