RETURNED MEN

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 19

RETURNED MEN

ADDRESS BY MRS. GILMER

Mrs. Knox Gilmer, Independent candidate for Wellington North, last night addressed a gathering of returned soldiers at their hostel, Wellington Terrace. Her audience listened with very close attention to Mrs. Gilmer, who outlined the main planks of her platform, and spoke of the great interest manifested by Wellington citizens in the returned soldiers, especially alluding to the fact that the wpmen of Wellington realised how much they owed the soldiers and wished to do their utmost in return.

Mrs. Gilmer hoped the inclusion of women representatives in Parliament would tend to laise the standard and, as they were laxpayers and represented about half the Dominion's total number of voters, it was an injustice for them not to be represented.

She gave the Government credit for what it had done lor returned soldiers, but unfortunately, owing to the high price of the land purchased, the earlier schemes were not a success. If elected, Mrs. Gilmer promised to do her utmost for the returned soldiers, and assured them she would not be a "dumb dog" in the House of Representatives.

In reply to & question, Mrs. Gilmer gave the assurance that, if she was elected, she would endeavour to see that women were treated as fairly as men, and she considered that girls earning low wages should not have to pay the unemployment tax.

The keen interest of the returned men was evident in the many questions asked relating to the welfare, not only of themselves, but the Dominion as a whole.

At the conclusion of £he meeting, in moving a hearty vote of thanks, the proposer remarked that they all realised what Mrs. Gilmer had done for them in the past, and ended by the remark: "You stick by us; that will satisfy us!"