SCOOTERS BANNED
Premier of Tasmania * WIFE LEAVING POLITICS Launceston, May 15. The Premier. Mr. A. G. Ogilvie, having silenced the motor-horns of the State, has now turned his attention to the younger generation. He has issued the regulation that “no person shall in any public street propel a wheeled contrivance commonly known as a scooter.” Airs. Ogilvie, wife of the Premier, lias decided to leave the political arena to her husband, with whose views on public issues she has more than once expressed disagreement. Recently Mrs. Ogilvie opposed her husband's proposal to place restrictions upon the sounding <>f motor-horns. “I have never considered that women should take a back seat,” she said, “but temperamentally and physically they are unsuited to. the life of a politician.” She added that women made political differences personal issues and carried them outside Parliament.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 196, 16 May 1936, Page 16
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139SCOOTERS BANNED Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 196, 16 May 1936, Page 16
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