BRITISH POLITICS.
FRANCHISE-TOR WOMEN. LABOUR PARTY’S PROPOSALS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. Received April 10, 8.45 a.m. LONDON, April 4. Tho House of Commons unanimously road tho second time the Labour Party’s Bill abolishing all disabilities of women in respect of civil and judicial offices, conferring the franchise equally with men, and enabling peeresses in their own right to sit in tho House of Lords. Dr C. Addison, on behalf of tho Government, intimated that they would propose the deletion of the equal franchise clause in committee, but tho other principles would bo accepted.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1506, 10 April 1919, Page 5
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