CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1071, 6 March 1913, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Will you permit me to commiserate with the poor disfranchised lady members of the Foxton Bowling Club. What a terrible travesty on the glorious principle of our much vaunted female franchise. Shades of Sir John Hall, Ballance and Seddon, what have you done to the Foxton Bowling Club ? Only think of It, Mr Editor, your past great men and Parliament assembled lifted aloft the banner of universal suffrage and female franchise, and the Foxton Bowling Club are bespattering it with mire. O tempera ! O mores! Would that Mrs Pank burst were at that meeting.. The genial secretary says, “ladies, you are allowed to vote by courtesy of the Club.” lam glad you quoted that sentence in the report, Mr Editor. And yet the matter is to be submitted to the secretary of the Bowling Association to settle! Now, what becomes of the validity of the proceedings ot that great and histrionic meeting if the secretary finds in his wisdom that the ladies were entitled to -

vote ? It appears to me, sir, that so long as the ladies perform feats ot drudgery for the Club and regale their lords and masters with afternoon tea, their reward for so doing is a reduced membership fee and the right, by “the courtesy ot the Club,” to vote —sometimes. What a Napoleonic standard ot womankind ! Oh! Foxton bowlers, what has possessed you ? Yours, etc.,

A Mother’s Son.