A Clerical Wag.
The Akaroa Mail says that the debate in the Christdhurch Anglican Synod on the desirability of granting the parochial franchise to women produced a very spirited discussion. The resolution went to a division, with the result that it was rejected. In tbe course of the debate the vicar of Akaroa, the Rev. T. J. Smith, who voted with the minority, remarked tbat the question of womeu's rights was as old as the time of Moses, and instanced a case in point. One member had interjeoted that women did not ask for this privilege. That, Mr Smith considered, was the weakest argument that could have been brought forward. The very best thing that woman ever had she did not ask for. Ninety nine our. of every hundred did not a?k for husbands, but they got them all the same.
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Manawatu Herald, 25 November 1897, Page 3
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141A Clerical Wag. Manawatu Herald, 25 November 1897, Page 3
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