RIGHTS OF PEERESSES.
NOT WANTED AT WESTMINSTER. By Telegraph.—Press A?aa.- Copyright. Received Nov. 14, 7 p.m. London, Nov. 11. The House of Lords rejected a cause which the House of Commons inserted in the Removal of Sex Disqualification Bill enabling peeresses in their own right to sit and vote in the House of Lords.—Renter Service. [When the Sex Removal Bill was before the House of Commons Mr. Lloyd Greame, Unionist member for Hendon, moved an amendment with a view to permitting women to sit in. the House of Lords. Sir E. M. Pollock, Solicitor-General, on behalf of the Government, urged that the amendment should not be pressed because it encroached on the privileges of the House, of Lords, who should deal with the matter. Mr. Greame asked leave to withdraw the amendments, but the House declined to allow it to be "withdrawn and the amendment was carried by 171 votes to 84.]
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1919, Page 5
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152RIGHTS OF PEERESSES. Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1919, Page 5
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