WOMEN AS ALDERMEN.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8899, 20 August 1907, Page 1

WOMEN AS ALDERMEN.

The Government Bill for qr; >i: r--iug women to sit sis aldermen mid councillors on county and borough councils, the second reading was carried in the House of Lords by 111 votes to 33. 1 The modesty of tire measure was pleaded by Lord Crowe in moving the second reading. All it did, he said, was to remove the sex disqualification in respect of sitting whore it had already gone in respect of voting. One conception of woman was chat of a combination of maid-of-all-work and ministering angel—that, together with the cult of the saucepan and the mangle, she should bo prepared to stand by and wipe the heated brow of the exalted being with whom she was privileged to | live. After a life of blamelessuess | and barley water she was supposed to retire to a chimney corner and employ herself in making undergarments for innumerable grandchildren. If she was not so constituted as to fill this picture, she was regarded by some as being determined to cuter upon a career *of breaking rp political meetings and 1 assaulting the police. There was plenty of room between these extremes for woman to sit on public bodies and exercise much useful influence.