WOMEN’S POLITICAL PROS= PECTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 March 1928, Page 9

WOMEN’S POLITICAL PROS= PECTS

There is every prospect that more women will try for a seat in Parliament at the next general election than was the case three years ago, states; an English exchange. Then there were 41 candidates, including 6 Liberals, 12 Labour, and 22 Conservatives. Already the candidatures of 38 have been endorsed by the respective headquarters of the parties concerned. 'Liberals (whose arrangements are not yet complete), 6; Labour, 23; Conservative, 9. Mrs. Corbett Ashby, the president of the Women’s National Liberal Federation, has been adopted, and other Liberal names mentioned are Mrs. Winthingham, Mrs. Walter Runeiman, Miss Megan Lloyd George (who> will stand probably for a Welsh constituency), and Lady Emmott. The women M.P.’s are likely to stand again for their constituencies. Mrs. Pankhurst, the veteran leader. for woman’s suffrage, is “nursing” the Whitechapel and St. Geoi’ge’s. divisionof Stepney in the Conservative interest. Labour women candidates include Lacly Cynthia. Mosley for Stoke-on-Trent, Lady Clare Annesley, an aunt of Earl Annesley, for Bristol West, and Miss Jessie Stephen, once a. domestic servant, for South Portsmouth.