WOMEN'S FRANCHISE.
TO THE EDITOR OP THE STAR. Sir, — Now that it seems women will get the franchise in the Upper House, and consequently will have a great power at licensing elections, and through the influence of religious bodies and temperance advocates, will most likely cast in their votes with the Prohibitionists, — and, as the Alcholic Liquors Sale Control Bill has already passed the third reading in in the Lower House, — I hope, when the Liquor Bill is discussed in the Upper House, a clause will be put in to compel every man and woman that votes for prohibition, or closing hotels, to pay their share in full for loss of revenue to the whole colony, and especially the share that falls from hotels to Local Bodies, so that burden also shall not be put on us ratepayers, who nro innocent of all this agitation and trouble, as 1 consider the rates are heavy enough already, likewise to let the agitators and voters abovenatned pay their equal share to the cost of election. I aui, etc., Fair Play. Feilding, August 531, 1893.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 55, 2 September 1893, Page 2
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182WOMEN'S FRANCHISE. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 55, 2 September 1893, Page 2
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