PEERESSES’ RIGHTS
WOMEN MAY SOON SIT IN HOUSE OF LORDS LONDON, October 22. Women, as a result of a decision of the judicial committee of the House of Lords, may shortly be sitting ill the House of Lords. The leaders of the various women’s organisations hail as an indication of this the committee’s decision that women are eligible to sit in the Canadian Senate. If they are correct, peeresses in their own right will be able to sit in the Lords. The decision reverses that of the Supreme Court of Canada, which held that the words “qualified persons” in the British North America Act of 1867 did not include women.
The Lord Chancellor, Sir John Sankey, delivering the committee’s judgment, traced the exclusion of women from public offices to the more barbarous days when men attended deliberate assemblies under arms, ready to repel an attack.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 807, 30 October 1929, Page 9
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