THE ELECTIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 251, 23 October 1935, Page 9

THE ELECTIONS.

WOMAN CANDIDATE.

MR. R. SEDDON'S DAUGHTER.

"ALWAYS A LIBERAL."

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON', this day. , Mrs. Knox Gilmer. last night opened her campaign for Wellington North as an Independent. Addressing a large audience, ehe announced herself as the first woman in Wellington who dared to' stand as a candidate for Parliamentary honours.

Slho was born a Liberal and would always be a Liberal, she eaid. She stood for the same principles as her Liberal father, the late Mr. Richard Seddon, who was the greatest friend the workers ever had. Some people eaid she was a j°% g°°d .sort, but they did not want women in Parliament—petticoats and all that sort of thing. "There are petticoats in Parliament even now," she said. (Laughter.) The daye when men were men were gone—the days of her father and the late Mr. Massey. A few determined and sincere women in Parliament would be in the national interest, and women could balance the Budget with the best of them. She stood for the humanities. On a no-confidence motion in the House she eaid she would vote as she thought fit.