WOMEN IN POLITICS.
As an old campaigner, one who has been a member of the National Council of Women, the Civic League, Nayy League, and school committees, etc., I claim to know something of the reason why no woman in New Zealand has hitherto been able to write the letters "M.P." after her name, although full suffrage has been hers since 1893. Until women use a broader vision towards each other and cultivate the spirit of sweet forbearance, remembering the mote in their own eye as well as the beam in their neighbour's, and cultivating the sporting spirit that can take hard knocks and come up smiling; till women recognise that they are asking for the privilege of serving all sorts and conditions of men and women; they should hesitate and ask themselves whether they are fitted for the position they aspire to occupy. As it is, I fear if a woman aspirant really gains a seat it will be with the assistance of the male elector and not because of the women's vote. The women's vote did not place the two women on the City Council. SUFFRAGETTE.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 289, 6 December 1928, Page 6
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