WOMEN ON JURIES
PROVISION FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE
BILL PASSED BY HOUSE.
GENERAL APPROVAL.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. General approval was accorded the Women Jurors (No. 2) Bill, which was put through all stages and passed in the House of Representatives last night. Moving the second reading, the Attorney-General, Mr Mason, said it simply provided for what had been done in other countries, though not in exactly the same way. The Minister said that in England jury service was compulsory for women. He read a letter received by the High Commissioner in London, Mr Jordan, from the Home Office. which stated that the principle that women should share jury service with men was well established and working well in Britain In New Zealand it was proposed to adopt the principle of voluntary service, and unless a woman cared to enrol for jury service she would not be called on to serve on a jury. He thought that would avoid certain inconveniences. Mrs Dreaver (Government, Waitemata), who had introduced a similar Bill which had been declared out of order (on the ground that it involved an appropriation), said that the women of New Zealand had been asking for the Bill for a long time. At a time like the present, when men were needed so badly for the forces and for the major essential industries, women could help to relieve the situation by assisting with the administration of justice. The Leader of the Opposition, Mr Holland, said the Opposition would be glad to concur in the passage of the Bill through the House. It would repair an omission in this country’s laws. Mrs Grigg (Opposition, Mid-Canterbury) and Mrs Stewart (Government. Wellington West), spoke in support of the Bill.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1942, Page 2
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