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Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 267, 20 December 1928, Page 2

It is stated that Australian womanhood has just discovered another injustice to her sex. If a woman accompanies her husband to England her passport is combined with hip. Suppose, however, the husband is transacting important business in London or elsewhere in the British Isles, and his wife wants to go by herself to Paris to buy frocks, she cannot do so unless she happens -to be very well known in England, and has influential relatives or friends there, If the wife is Australianborn, with no oersonal connections in the Mother Country, her case is almost hopeless, fpr she is not allowed to travel to the joint passport. She has tokbotaih a certificate or a recojnmepaation for another passport from a-, person who has known her for several years. Obviously if she has jgstk arrived in England for the first time this is d-aJSher ridiculops,<jf-It is said that the Ivofible- could bp. overcome if the Federal Government so desired, but if .jeems to he one of those matters which is anybody’s—and therefore nobody’s—business.