"LIKE BOXING THEIR OWN EARS IN PUBLIC."
At a meeting of the women's political societies in Auckland, to allow the local delegates to the recent Women's National Council in Wellington an opportunity to explain what was done at the Convention, Mrs Kirkby referred to Miss Benjamin's paper on the equalities of the law regarding men and women, which was rejected by the Council. She said the advice Miss Benjamin gave sounded like impertinence coming from a young woman, even though she was a full-blown barrister. Mrs Kirkby thought it was quite riight the paper was rejected. Miss Benjamin had been asked to write on the disabilities of women, but did not point out any special disability. Ono of the members of the Council had said, and - a-s Kirkby thought she was right, that if the paper had been read it would Jb.ave been like boxing their own ears in public.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 10042, 21 May 1898, Page 7
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