WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1930, Page 3

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

TRIBUTE TO MRS PANKHURST

(United Prhsb Association—By Electru 'ltslegraph—Copyright^.

& LONDON, March 6. Rt. Hah.- Air Baldwin unveiled the statute ofVMrs Pankhurst at Vietoria Tower Gardens. The Metropolitan Police Band representing an organisation with which Mrs Pankhurst was somewhat familiar was' a striking featur'e of the ceremony. The* played the' works of four women composers.

Dame Ethel Smyth a. veteran su;fragette, was an imposing figure in academic robes, and she personally conducted,'' two of her compositions which sheJAvrote during the women’s struggle for political equality.

The stathe, which is the work of Mr A. Walker and Sir Hubert Baker, wah draped in purple, white and green,-; : the familiar colours of the Women’s Social and Political Union. Wreaths tsrere piled high around the hase. was .inscribedr “Mother, from Ghrisiohel. • v ' *• ••

All trafs.ilin the Thames Embankment- wasjigtopped ' until "the close" of the ceremony. -

Mr Balcl'iVin said that they were united to,- the -ijiqnument under the shadow of the House of Parliament,, and it .had fallen to his lot to participate in the ceremony as one who, for many years, Ijad opposed Mrs Pankhurst’s work, hut eventually it was he who had put the coping stone to her labours.