A JUDGE’S VIEW. LONDON, Oct. 29
A breach of promise action in which a woman barrister and three jury women were engaged, prompted Air Justice McArdie. who is a bachelor, to declare that such cases were an assertion of woman’s inferiority. He had rarely heard breach of promise cases of a man against a woman. Women came
forward as a weaker sex to recover damages under a law drawn up tyhen she was an economic slave, though she has now exerted herself an economic equal. lie added: "You have to consider the matrimonial market if tomorrow this woman meets another man
of character and sobriety, earning £7 weekly. She gains instead of' loses. She says she has lost hope, but hope revives quickly in the breast of an unmarried woman.”
The jurymen retaliated by giving the girl a £IOO damages.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1927, Page 2
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