VOTELESS FLAPPERS TAKE LETTER TO KING

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 273, 8 February 1928, Page 9

VOTELESS FLAPPERS TAKE LETTER TO KING

PALACE GUARDIAN PROOF AGAINST ALL MAIDENLY STRATEGY By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 11.45 a.m. LONDON, Tuesday. Four advance guards of the flappers’ vote battalions had a quiet passage to No. 10 Downing Street, where they delivered to the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, copies of a petition praying that the Bill to give votes to women at the age of 21 be taken as the first measure of the present session. But they found the approach to Buckingham Palace entirely different.

“Wo -would like to deliver a letter for the King,” said the leader, but the policeman at the main gate was courteously adamant, even after half an hour’s cajoling. Then maidenly strategy failed badly. Miss Woodman re-engaged the constable in earnest arguments while Miss Coutts Trotter stormed the Privy Purse door, but another constable appeared from nowhere, slammed the door and gathered the struggling Miss Coutts Trotter and gallantly deposited her on the street. The women then held a council of war, and decided to effect delivery in a more prosaic way by messenger.— A. and N.Z.

Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the extension of the franchise to women aged 30.

The letter to His Majesty says the 3,000,000 voteless women under 30 years of age include the possessors of some of the most brilliant minds of the day, and that thousands of wives and mothers who work in shops, factories and workshops, are doing their bit toward building up national prosperity.