DR. MARION PHILLIPS
AN HISTORIC FIGURE
United Service. (.Received 3rd June, 1 p.m.)
LONDON, 2nd June. A uniquely historic figure is Dr. Marion Phillips, the first Australian-born woman to enter the House of Commons. She attributed a large part of Labour's success to womanhood suffrage. Her mother was bora in Wellington, New Zealand, and taken to Australia when a year old.
Dr. Marion Phillips, who was born in Melbourne, is Chief Woman Officer of the Labour Party. She was educated at Melbourne University and the University of London, D.Sc (Econ.), and has taken a prominent part in trades union work for the last twenty years She is editor of the "Labour "Woman," a monthly journal of the Labour Party
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 127, 3 June 1929, Page 9
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119DR. MARION PHILLIPS Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 127, 3 June 1929, Page 9
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