MRS, KNOX GILMER

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 82, 4 October 1938, Page 7

MRS, KNOX GILMER

MRS. LEE'S CRITICISM

"I do believe in women in politics, I but the woman who comes to you seeking your endorsement as a political candidate must be a progressive! person," said Mrs. J. A. Lee, speaking i at Mr. C. H. Chapman's meeting in St. Francis Hall, Hill Street, last evening. "She must belong to the party which is bringing welfare to New Zealand. No woman, in my belief, can stand on a political platform arid advocate anything that is not essential to human welfare. I don't know the lady standing in /this (Wellington North) electorate, or what she stands for." A voice: National. Mrs. Lee: She's an Independent, but how independent. Where is thej National candidate if she is not' National? I believe that 'Liberal' has no meaning today. In the House, there j are only two lobbies, and any' Independent seeking your political support j must know which lobby he or she will go to if returned. Whether she be Liberal, National, Reform, or United she must go into the opposite lobby to the Labour Party. I can. tell you what she does not stand for. She is opposed to Government housing, social security, invalidity pensions—she must be opposed to all these things because the Labour Party stands for them." A man: She is opposed to her own father.