WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 7 November 1935, Page 4

WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT

Candidate Gives Ten Reasons in Support of Claim NO PARTY RECOGNITION “A SAD REFLECTION”

As the political parties have presented their respective platforms or manifestos, Mrs Knox Gilmer, Independent candidate for Wellington North, advances the following reasons why some women should be in Parliament: — 1. Nearly half the population are of our sex: and Parliament cannot be complete without their direct representation.

2. Women are taxpayers and “taxation without representation’’ is a glaring injustice. 3. There can be no true democracy without the inclusion of women.

4. It is recognised by all educationists and thinking men that women’s mental power of intuition is of great value and should not be neglected. o. That laws and administration which directly alfect women and children should have the full consideration of women in Parliament. 6. That in several countries women have demonstrated their fitness to be on public bodies and in Parliament.

7. That women’s presence is more likely to raise than to lower the tone of Parliament.

8. That educated women of experience have as much concern for financial stability as men.

9. That New Zealand should advance from') its backward state.

[Note: There are 65 women candidates in Britain and only three in New Zealand.] 10. That the attitude of the National and Labour Parties in having no women candidates is a sad reflection when we think of how they look for women’s support.