DO WOMEN KNOW WHAT THEY WANT? -JUDGE’S VIEWS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22664, 15 June 1948, Page 6

DO WOMEN KNOW WHAT THEY WANT? -JUDGE’S VIEWS

(P.A.) DUNEDIN. .Tune . 14. “My real opinion is that the majority of women know what they want verv well, and some of them decisively 50,”' declared Mr. Justice Fleming in a statement at the beginning of the Supreme Court sitting in Dune.un this morning when repudiating a report in a Christchurch newspaper on “Women's Wants.” The paragraph to which Mr. Justice Fleming took exception was. he said, a misreport of what lie said in the course of a recent case "My remarks referred to ‘some' women, but the reported misquoted me by making my remarks refer to ‘all women,” said His Honour. “I do not wish to be cited as an authority for this libel on women." The report to which exception was taken said: "No woman knows what she wants until you give her what you think she wants, and then always it is something else that she wanted, said Mr. Justice Fleming in giving judgment in the Christchurch Supreme Court against a woman defendant. "One man 1 know lends a particularly happy married life because he always keeps that rule in mind. If he wants something done in a particular way. for instance, he always suggests to his wife that it should be done in the opposite way. Inevitably, being a woman, she says that 'it should be done in the opposite way to what he suggests and he. as a loving and dutiful husband, of course, bows toiler opinion and so it is done as he really wished it to be done."

“It may be prudent to add.” said Mr. Justice Fleming today, “that the woman mentioned in the concluding portion of the paragraph is not a relative of mine."