The White Ribbon. For God and Home and Humanity. WELLINGTON, MARCH 18, 1916. BRITISH DOMINIONS WOMAN SUFFRAGE UNION.

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 249, 18 March 1916, Page 9

The White Ribbon. For God and Home and Humanity. WELLINGTON, MARCH 18, 1916. BRITISH DOMINIONS WOMAN SUFFRAGE UNION.

At a meeting- of the Advisory Committee of the 8.D.W.5.U., held in London on December 13th, Miss Sheepshanks (Fditor of “Jus Suffragii") in the chair, Mrs Fawcett (President of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies) proposed, and Mrs Pethick Lawrence (President of the United Suffragists) seconded, the following resolution, which was tarried unanimously:— “That the attention of the women of Australia and New Zealand should be urgently drawn to the fact that as enfranchis'd women they have the duty of leading the movement for Women Suffrage for the Umpire. They alone of British women will be directly represented at the Imperial Conference which will be held immediately the war is over, and indirectly at the Con-

gress of the Powers which will follow that Conference. They must therefore instruct their representatives, the Premiers of the Commonwealth and the Dominion, to press for the granting of the Franchise to women as essential to a true democracy, and to the highest interests of the Empire. Further, the Premiers must endeavour to secure that the question of Woman Suffrage be included in the programme of the Congress of the Powers.” We hope Convention will consider the above resolution. Surely we who enjoy all the benefits of the vote should do all in our power to assist our sisters in other parts of the Kmpire to gain this boon. Women have shown during this war that they are worthy of the vote, and we must do our best to see that they get it. As one result of this dreadful war, we hope to see equal suffrage throughout the British Fmpire.