THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
AVOMEN IN POLITICS. x.te expression “women’s rights” is not so much heard these days as formerly. The reason is simply that many of the rights which were being fought for by women only a few years ago are now theirs to enjoys as they may. It is only a matter of fifteen years since the “suffragettes,” clamour for the vote, were creating turmoil in England. The war intervened, and they abandoned their campaign to espouse the national cause with a memorable efficiency and thoroughness. At the conclusion of the war they had no need to resume their embarrassing agitation for the ifranclnse. It was first conceded to women not under thirty year’s of age, and flic Baldwin Government completed the capitulation by the passage last year of legislation giving women the vote on equal terms with'men.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1929, Page 4
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140THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1929, Page 4
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