WOMEN AND POLITICS
MR COATES STRESSES VALUE OF WOMEN POLITICIANS HUMOROUS TOUCH TO REMARKS (Special to the Times.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 29. “If you put your candidates into Parliament, I am sure you will never regret it”, said the Prime Minister (Mr Coates), in addressing a meeting arranged to-day by the Women's Political Reform League in honor of Mrs Goatee and himself. Mr Coates, who was heartily applauded, said he would welcome the election of women in Parliament. The Government had to deal with social and humanitarian questions in which women were interested and their help would be most valuable. As rt was, he had to ask his wife's opinion on many matters. (Laughter). He had often found that, after the men had spent months in shaping a proposal and getting it down to a reasonable compass, a woman, with a few words, would turn the whole thing upside down. (Laughter).
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10730, 30 October 1928, Page 5
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