IN A CLEFT STICK
Mr. James M.'Combs believes that' h*4 has the Legislative Council in a cleft stick regarding its objection to the clause ' empowering women to sit in Parliament. ; Mr. M'Combs says that the. Council has!? no right to interfere with what th»* Lower House may decide regarding •'■ its | own constitution, but he has a stronger^ argument to advance. . ' .In 1914, when the Legislative Council H pill was up for consideration by the.i Bouse, Mr. M'Combs points out, 'the] flouse inserted a clause making women 1 eligible for the Council. The Council's-4 managers thereupon minuted a resolution,'*! —^"When and so soon as women are*> eligible for election as members of thej. House they shall also be eligible fp« nomination or election as members of^ the Council, and also to be chosen »s*| members under section' 24) hereof;"- This S the Council embodied in Clause i 8 of its ; Bill, Mr. M'Combs says, and added^j Sub-clause (1): "Any person who,,under ;) the provisions of the principal- Act may| be elected a member of the. House, but :\ no other, may be elected a member of ; tl\e Council, except that a member of -\ the House shall not be elected a member^ of the Council." : . .;•
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 137, 6 December 1918, Page 7
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201IN A CLEFT STICK Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 137, 6 December 1918, Page 7
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