AN ALL-NIGHT SITTING
Tlic .nl.l-iiight sitting, TVccmbcr 14-1 o, in the House nf Commons was something of ;i triumph for iJie women members. For over twentv-two hours, six women—Mrs. Tate (West Wallsend), Miss Irene Ward (Wallsend), Miss K. Horslirufrh (DundeeK Mrs. Hunsio (I'otherhithe), Mrs. Shaw (Hothwell) and Miss Graves (South Hackney) cheerfully endured the fatigue and monotony of the House on a night of this kind. It seems that Mrs. Tate, who went for sixteen hours 011 a diet of two poached eizgs, is partial to these late sittings: She has scarcely missed one in the present Parliament. Miss Ward also seemed to enjoy the experience. She told her friends that the time did not. drag in the least. It is a moot point whether women do not have greater endurance in many respects than men. Hour after hour during the cold night these ladies, vrauiK'd in their furs, remained perfectly cheerful, and it was noticeable that when the end did come, their appearance had scarcely suffered, though most of the men looked terrible sights in bedraggled garments.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21731, 21 February 1934, Page 16
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178AN ALL-NIGHT SITTING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21731, 21 February 1934, Page 16
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