WOMEN MINERS.
PROHIBITED BY MINES BILL.
(Received Last Night, 8.2U, o'clock.)
LONDON, August 4. Despite- Mr Masterman's objection, Mr Maikham's amendment to the Mines Bill, excluding women, from working at pit brows, was carried in committee. A deputation of pit-brow girls ihas arrived in London to interview Mr GhiurcbilL>- v V
MR MASTERMAN REPLYING TO
DEPUTATION.
(Received Last Nighty 8.50 o'clock.)
LONDON, August 4.
Mr -Ma3iteTmain, replying, to the pitbrow girls' deputation, he regretted that the action showed .the. necessity of women'© vote •on the question. I&; w,as essentially for women to decide. Therefore, a men's Parliament 'was- elected, and *he, mein had no right (to prohibit women from pit-brow - work. He had : Mr Churchill'fl authority to say that aa effort would he made to alter the committee's decision.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10306, 5 August 1911, Page 5
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