A SPINSTERS' M.P.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 286, 2 December 1936, Page 22

A SPINSTERS' M.P.

IF SHE WINS SEAT.

FIGHT FOR PENSIONS AT 55.

(Special.—By Air Mail.)

LONDON, November 14.

For the first time in history the .>pinsters of England will have their own Parliamentary member to fight for the rights of spinsters to pensions at the age of !ia —if Preston accepts her. Miss Florence White, who came out of the little confectionery shop which she and her sister own at Lidget GrCen, Bradford, to become founder and organiser of che National Spinsters' Pension Association, is to enter the by-election. She declared this week: — "I shall sit on the Government side of the House if lam elected. But I shall fight my campaign purely on the pensions issue, except that I shall try to answer political questions intelligently. The campaign will be run as we have run our association—on economic lines. There will be no waste. If I forfeit my deposit, it will be my own loss—and on© which I shall cheerfully face for the great issue to which I am devoted." Miss White has this in her favour— other women say she is "lovely." One member said: "She is good to look at. She has nice pink cheeks and looks quite young, though she is middle-aged. I She is wonderful. She inspires confijdence."