WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3157, 7 April 1909, Page 7

WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.

A RECORD OF PROGRESS. Seventy years ago women could not vote anywhere, except to a very limited extent in Sweden and a few other places in the Old World. In 1838 Kentucky gave school suffrage to widows with children of school age. In 1850 Ontario gave it to women both married and single. In 1861 Kansas gave it to all women. Sweden gave women municipal suffrage in 1862, and New South Wales in 1867. In 1869 England gave municipal suffrage to single women and widows. Victoria gave it to women both married and single, and Wyoming gave full suffrage to all won.en. (n 1871 West Australia gave municipal suffrage to ■ women. School suffrage was granted in 1877 by New Zealand, in 1878 by New Hampshire and Oregon, and in 1880 South Australia gave municipal suffrage to women. In 1881 municipal suffrage was extended to single women and widows of Scotland, and Iceland gave single women and widows the right to vote for parish councils, town councils, district boards, and vestries. Nebraska gave women school suffrage in 1883. Municipal suffrage was given by Qntario and Tasmania in 1884, and by New Zealand and New Brunswick in 1886. In 1888 England gave women county suffrage, and British Colombia and the North West territory gave them municipal suffrage. In 1893 school suffrage was granted in Connecticut, and full suffrage in Colarado and New Zealand. In 1897 the women of Ireland were given the right to vote for all offices ex- , cept members of Parliament. In 1900 Winconsin gave women school suffrage, and West Australia granted full Parliamentary suffrage to women, both married and single. In 1901 New York gave taxpaying women in all towns and villages oi the State the right to vote on questions of local suffrage, Norway gave them municipal suffrage, and the Kansas Legislature voted down almost unanimously and "amid a ripple of amusement" a Droposal to repeal municipal woman suffage. In 1902 full national suffage to all the women of Federated Australia, and State suffrage to the women of New South Wales, and Iceland made single i women and widows eligible to all the offices for which they could vote, ' namely, as members of parish and . town councils, ditsrict boards and j i vestries. In 1903 full State suffraee was given to the women of Tasmania. In 1905 full State suffrage was ' given to the ■ women of Queensi landt, and municipal suffrage to j the women of Natal, South Africa. 3ln 1906 Finland gave women full suffrage. In 1907 Norway gave them full suffrage, Sweeden made them eligible for municipal office, Denmark gave them the right to vote for members of boards of public charities, and to serve on such boards, and England made them eligible as mayors, aldermen, and town and county councillors.