“UNJUST DISTINCTION”
EXCLUSION OF WOMEN FROM VISITORS’ GALLERY PETITIONER’S PLEA P.A. WELLINGTON, Aug. 4. A petition of Eva Patricia Angus, of Lower Hutt presented in the House of Representatives to-day, asks that the practice of not permitting women to sit in the special visitors’ gallery on the floor of the House be revised. The petitioner said the present practice of excluding women from this gallery (as distinct from the public galleries upstairs) was contrary to the principle of equality and introduced an undesirable and unjust distinction between the sexes incompatible with the accepted position of women in the world to-day. The petitioner said the tradition could well be dispensed with in the interests of justice, and asked that women be permitted on the floor of the House on the same terms as men.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26842, 5 August 1948, Page 5
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