UNAFRAID AND HOPEFUL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 509, 12 November 1928, Page 13

UNAFRAID AND HOPEFUL

WOMEN LOOK TO PARLIAMENT MRS. MAGUIRE AT PARNELL After what Mr*. Maguire has passed through in her election campaign »n Auckland East she is unafraid, and glories in the idea that she is pioneering her sex to Parliament. •*l am not afraid of anything/' > e assured her audience at Parnell e x Saturday evening. “You need not f* ip for me If l am the only woman in ti • House l glory in the fact that lam fighting uown the prejudice again l women in Parliament and 1 do belle* • l am making definite headway. It is foolish to think that women ’nave i > contribution to make in the government of the country, and they oug l to be allowed to make it/' Mrs. Maguire's complaint again t her sox was that the women of x Reform school of political tlxoug .l neglected to vote at the polls. Ijabmii* women appreciated the value of tho franchise, and exercised it. Mrs. Maguire was heckled throughout her meeting by a largo number of Labour sympathisers, who chipped Lor monotonously upon her politics, anil who were threatened by the chairman. Mr. P. J. Crump. The candidate made it clear that she thought the life of Parliament too short at present, and advocated its extension to five years.