WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.
' CONCILIATION BILL. I'.y TcleirraDa— Press Association—CoDvrichl London, June 0. The National 'Union of .Women's Suffrage Societies support the- Conc'ilia-i tion Committee's Bill. '[It was lately cabled that a Conciliation Committee,' representing all parties in the House of Commons, had prepared a Bill, supported by both the front and back benches, enacting women's Parliamentary suffrage on the basis of the existing Local Government Board register.] THE WISDOM OF SIR GEORGE. (Rec. June 7, 10.15 p.m.) , London, June 7. Sir Geo. Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, in opening the Congress of Women at the Anglo-Japanese . Exhibition, -said that every country must work out its own political franchise. In the past woman had been regarded as a sort of postscript ,to man, not half as important as the postscript in a lady's letter. ! That' state of affairs, he added,-- had been conipletely changed. Queen Elizabeth, it had formerly been said, was the exception which proved the rule that women were unfit to rule, but Queen Victoria had proved that Queen Elizabeth was "no fluke." -
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 837, 8 June 1910, Page 5
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173WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 837, 8 June 1910, Page 5
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