WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.
I ' [FROM OCR OWN' CORRESPONDENT.] ®, Lo.vdon, November 12. A meeting in connection with the Leith Hill Women's Suffrage Society was held recently at Dorking, when Dr. W. A. J Chappie, an ex-member of the New Zea--1 Kind Legislature, dwelt upon the advantage which had accrued to th© community Kby the extension of the franchise to the '* women of New Zealand. Dr. Chappie proposed a resolution in favour of granting the franchise in England to women on , the same terms as it is granted to men. I He said that the women of New Zealand . nad never asked to be allowed to go into Parliament, and were content to eend the Wen there to represent them. If the |,B*«n|did not represent them they had the . power of turning them out. Dr. Chappie .farther argued that the militant method | tad its justification in that the movement | *a« now noticed in the press. The resolution was carried by a good majority.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14250, 22 December 1909, Page 11
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