BRITISH REGISTRATION BILL
WOMEN WANT .TO BE INCLUDED. By Telegraph —Press Associatl o -.-—Copyright LONDON, July 9. In the House of Commons, the Right Hon. VV. H. Long (President of the Local Government Board) stated that in the first draft of the Registration Bill tho register was confined to information got from the press, resulting in the indignant demands from women in all parts of the country to .be included. In answer to a request to make the age limit fifty-five, Mr Long stated that he had received numberless angry letters of protest from men over sixtyfive years of age because they had been refused the privilege of serving the State.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9093, 12 July 1915, Page 9
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