WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 138, 12 June 1926, Page 18

WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—l will let Ruby E. Watson's refort re the Labour party go for what it is worth, hut it is none the less deplorable that one who claims to have had "experience of Labour parties and social work in other parts of the Empire" could allow a caprice to dominate ordinary good taste. Having no axe to grind, I reiterate tbe undesirability of further factions in Parliament; co-operation and not confusion is more logical. In reference to the question asked, "Who but a woman could know how to improve home conditions," R. E. Watson deals only with effect and ignores the cause, thereby showing a superficial knowledge of the position. I repeat, men and women alike suffer under the social system of to-day,' and when, by their united effort, they are able to secure more equitable conditions, then poverty, and its handmaiden, ignorance, will cease to have their destroying effect. I pray R. E. Watson to excuse mc from further parley, for finality cannot be reached between two such divergent minds.— I am, etc., \ E. WINIFRED MOORE.