ADULT SUFFRAGE.
WO MEN’S FRA NCHISE
(Reuter’s Telegram.) (Received March 1, noon.) LONDON, Feb. 29.
In the House of Commons the women members were strongly represented when a Laborite, Mr. Adamson, moved the second reading the the Representation of the People’s Act, 1918, Amendment Bill, with tlie object of enfranchising women aged twenty years of age and upwards, for both local government and Parliamentary elections, placing the whole franchise for both sexes, other than university electors, on a similar basis of residence, and abolishing the statutory right of universities to charge f ees for registration. The Bill extends to Scotland, but not to the North of Ireland.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16370, 1 March 1924, Page 6
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