Women Oppose Abolishment
USE OF THE “CAT” United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, May 11. Hundreds of delegates at a women’s conservative conference at the Queen’s Hall to-day yelled an emphatic “no” when asked to support a Home Office report recommending the abolition of the “cat” for offenders against women and children. Of the 2500 delegates, 2439 voted in favour of the retention of flogging.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 112, 15 May 1939, Page 9
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65Women Oppose Abolishment Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 112, 15 May 1939, Page 9
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