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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 88, 14 April 1927, Page 7

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.QUESTIONS IN HOUSE.! Government Attitude on Women's Votes. MR. BALDWIN- EXPLAINS. Uritisi OfSdal w :r .>«« ■ Received 12 3fl r . - RUGBY. Ar.-.l 11 Mr. Baldwin was asked :« the Hon>e of Commons wheth-r the Gov- = emntent intended to earrv ;t« bill * for enfranchising W' rten at 21 tn*-"> f law rafScienUy early to allow time for new voters to be r*t:t the re—is- " He replied that this w as -a-;-.- 7 ,£ ~. cult question to answer I; :he 'fe of Parliament lasted .ts norrral Icr — a namely, until the autumn of 1&29. there - weald be no dimcnltv ;-; voters being able to vote. ; The ociy case wV ere - new v::e>r * would be unable to v-te would b* ir. th-r event of an unexpected catastrophe brmrinr the life of th.s tc an end. I He \o riose the rres-:nt ' at the end of July and to bepin the new * session in sunsc;ent t:me before Christmas to enable "-ne cr two cf the rr.nc:nal measnres of this «?«i-n tc be read a " ' second time before Christ—as. He indicated that the Bill " i would be one of these measures. Mr T. R. ayne« La:. PUttinji : i a«ked tbe Prime Mir.ister s v ner"tia- J tious on isirrjr.fn: a: the Preraratorv " Ccir.misston at Geneva The Pnr-. Minister th- urrt there ! would be little advantage ir. making a statement at this 'tare rartirularlv ' t since full reports cf the r-roceediars had ' appeared in the Press He assured Mr. Clynes that the ', British rerresertativo had ; - cr-- * ? .a«b communicat.cn vr.tn tne ment at Home, and the surrest:ou« •vhtch be had made to the Government had had the greatest weight riven In tact :t was true to ur that conressiocs on important pr r.t* had u.c*st!v Kme from the British sideSir Austen Chamberlain was asked . aboct the prom-es« of negotiations be- t tweea this countrr and the sultas of Ned. * He replied that the ner^tia - .ous w*j-s „ m no way with the future - of the holy places of Islam, that cues- - tion being a matter of purely Moslem . concern, in whsch :t would be" unnttiar :or H.s Majesty's ijc vernment to intervene. * Tie negotiations were temt-orarilv 4 suspended in December in order that the - British neffct-at-'t might return to Lon- t don to consult His Majesty* G ••emmert on certain joints. Arrangement', had now been made to B resume them m the near future.