AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 29 June 1927, Page 12

AT HOME AND ABROAD.

For the first time in English Parliamentary history a woman recently acted as teller in the House of Commons, and read out to the House the result of the division on the Teaching Bill. Mrs. Hilton Philipsou (formerly Miss MaM Russell, the actress) was the woman member concerned, and she was warmlv congratulated on her distinction. She leeined a little nervous as she advanced to the T.llllv :lllrl u lin<wi I

j three mule colleagues. Ij<t mu.- h;nl I U-en it fell to lior lut to * declare the rpsult of the divi«.nn. Many an experienced Whip had found difficulty in performing with precision the three , how* which have to b<? made to the , Speaker when he calls lor silence. Mr*. ; i Philip»on had drilled her squad perfectly,' i and tho bows were models of jjr.-in\ .Seen : in the lobby afterwards, Mr>. FhilipsKHi ! said that she found the oxpericnw! a j little trvinji, but very interesting.