WOMAN CANDIDATE

Northern Advocate, 23 October 1935, Page 8

WOMAN CANDIDATE

WELLINGTON NORTH SEAT RICHARD SEDDON’S DAUGHTER. [Per Press Association.—Copyright! WELLINGTON, This Day. Mrs Knox Gilmer, last night opened her campaign for Wellington North as an Independent. Addressing a large audience she announced herself as the first woman in Wellington who dared to stand as a candidate for Parliamentary honours. She was born a Liberal and would always be a Liberal she said. She stood for the same principles as her Liberal father, the late Richard Seddon, who was the greatest friend the workers ever had. Some people said she was jolly good, but they did not want women in Parliament —petticoats and all that sort of thing. “There are petticoats in Parliament even now,” she said. The days when men were men were gone—days of her father and the late Mr Massey. A few determined and sincere women in Parliament would be in the national interest, and women could balance the Budget with the best of them. She stood for the humanities. On a no-confidence motion in the House she said she would vote as she thought fit.