Women Reporters.
#- The members of the Press Gallery of the House of Representatives were on Monday called upon to consider an application for the admission of a woman reporter to their midst. For some two or three sessions past women reporters have done their work from the Ladies' Gallery of the House, but now one has come on the scene who wishes to be allowed to take the seat set apart for the paper (the Lyttelton Times) that she is commissioned to represent, and so benefit by the facilities provided for the regular press representatives. The Speaker of the House, who has always had charge of the galleries of the House, has pronounced against the mixing of the sexes, and on Monday the Press Gallery, by n to 5, passed a resolution to a similar effect. So the matter rests at present, but it is understood 1 that the minority who claim that women should have equal opportunities
with men in their efforts to obtain a living, declare that they are only at the beginning of a campaign in vindication of a principle that they consider nnassailably just. — Post.
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Manawatu Herald, 18 August 1898, Page 2
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189Women Reporters. Manawatu Herald, 18 August 1898, Page 2
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