WOMEN M.P.'S AND BY-ELECTION

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 39, 16 February 1943, Page 2

WOMEN M.P.'S AND BY-ELECTION

In my opinion the back slide of the Labour party in Christchurch East was due to women having the audacity to stand for Parliament, even in the eyes of most men belonging to the same party as the woman candidate. It struck me that this was the case when Mrs Dreaver M.P., was elected. This prejudice is not confined to men only, sad to relate. Some queer track-minded people still think that woman's place is in the home, and oldfashioned ones are horrified to see women in trousers, and opposed the women on the trams being out of skirts, whereas actually the trousers would be far more modest looking than the short skirts and display'of legs we see now. In Hitler's and Mussolini's countries they have the same queer ideas of women, yet if it wasn't for women, who are the chief means of keeping on the race there would be no people in the world at all. Mr. Lee hates the Labour Government because they gave him the "order of the boot" after his treatment of Mr. Savage when he was dying. Lee is verv very Red. We at least want half the members in Parliament to be women since they constitute half of the population in the world, and all laws concern them and their families acutely more than men. A WOMAN".