Don't Depend On Bill When You Go To Vote

Northern Advocate, 17 May 1949, Page 7

Don't Depend On Bill When You Go To Vote

WOMAN M.P.'s PLEA TO WOMEN

AUCKLAND, Tue. (Sp.).—“Don’t be such fools as to depend on Bill (your husband),” Mrs G. H. Ross (0 —Hamilton) told a meeting at Newmarket last night. Mrs Ross was appealing to women to think for themselves when they went to the polls at the next general election.

If any one body of people had suffered from the inconveniences and shortages of the day it was the women, said Mrs Ross.

Many women showed little interest in politics and adopted the attitude: “Bill will teli me what to do.” “Do not be such fools as to depend on Bill,” said Mrs Ross. “We women must think for ourselves and vote as we think. “After 14 years of Labour Government here we are running round with candies and torches. “How much longer are you women going to put up with it? “It is all very well for these Communists,” she continued, in mentioning the part Communists had played in recent industrial unrest.

Any suggestion that the National Party would cut pensions was about the silliest thing ever said, Mrs Ross continued.

Nothing could be more deplorable than the plight of old-age pensioners. It was ridiculous that men, and women should not be allowed to work after the age of 60. Her party had a scheme which would ’ enable these people to continue working. Deploring the leniency at present being extended to murderers, Mrs Ross said she had always favoured the retention- of capital punishment.

“Do any of them live by the sweat of their brow?

Such terrible murders had been committed recently that every woman would help in the hanging of the, culprits.

"I bet they do not.”

Mrs Ross said that last November the Minister of Finance (Mr Nash) had forgotten that he sent a telegram to Moscow, and the Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) recently forgot the price of Carlton House.

Mrs Ross also criticised the frequency of Ministerial trips abroad. She said it was a case of "join the Government and see the world.”

When they began to lose their memories it was time they lost their seats.

A Minister no sooner left a plane than another got into it.