WOMEN IN POLITICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21068, 30 December 1931, Page 12

WOMEN IN POLITICS.

SOUTH AFRICAN MOVEMENT. [ FfiOM oi'R OWN COHnEPI'ONPEXT.] CAPETOWN. Nov. .12. South African women aro organising with n view to having representatives of their own sex in the next Union Parliament. Several names have already been put forward and prominent among them is that of Lady do Villiers, who, for some years, took a prominent part in the work of the Women's Enfranchisement Associa fion, a movement that was dissolved last year, when tho vote was given in the Union to all European women over 21 years of age. "I see no reason," says Lady de Villiers, "why South Africa should not have a woman Prime Minister some day." Women M.P.'s, she says, will feel specially called on to use their votes for measures to improve conditions of living for women and children; they will put people before property. They will also, she hoped, use all their influence in favour of local option in the liquor trade or total prohibition, and in seeing that justice is done, to the native. It was, moreover, almost impossible to believe that any thinking woman would vote tp favour of another war. None, of the countries involved in the Great War, she recalled, had enfranchised their women in 1014.