In January 1887, Aldis wrote to protest the council allowing a woman to be fired from a cannon (the mayor replied that they did not have powers to stop it, and the performance went ahead).[14][15] She also questioned a lead article that objected to ladies teaching at Auckland Girls' High School, and advocated for female immigration of women suitable for colonists' wives, and for equal pay for female teachers.[16] Aldis even wrote to the Englishwoman's Review warning prospective colonists that women would not get equal pay for equal work, and describing the moral tone of the colony as "terribly low".[4] She expressed her views on secular education and the fairness of taxing dissenters.[17] Their pacifist views also led Aldis and her husband to speak out against the proposed military salute after the Duke of Clarence died in 1892, and to object to the rifle practice of the local Volunteers as a waste of money.[6][5]