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Annie Golding and Kate Dwyer
Suffrage Group (detail)
Freeman and Co, 1902, SLNSW, ON 219/96
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Letter from Annie Golding on behalf of the
Women’s Progressive Association of New
South Wales regarding the appointment
of the first two policewomen in NSW
Annie Golding wrote to Chief Secretary, George
Black, on 21 June 1915, expressing her approval
at the decision to ‘finally’ appoint two women
to the police force. She submitted, however, that
the age limit for female recruits be lifted from
40 to 45 years. A month later, Lillian Armfield,
aged 31, and Maude Rhodes, aged 37, were
appointed the first women police constables
in NSW.
NRS 905 [5/7358] letter 15/39788
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Deputation to the Honourable Solicitor
General from the Women’s Progressive
Association in regard to the appointment
of women magistrates, etc
A coalition of groups, led by Annie Golding
as President of the Women’s Progressive
Association, introduced a deputation to the
NSW Solicitor General on 4 August 1917
requesting ‘full civil rights to women’.
NRS 302/333 [3/3165] Papers re shoplifting, the First
Offenders (Women) Act, and the Women’s Legal Status Bill
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