WOMEN POLITICIANS
MRS. DALTON'S ELECTION • (British Official Wireless.') Kec. 10 a.m. RUGBY, Feb. 10. The return of Mrs. Dalton at the Bishop Auckland by-election, makes the ninth woman member of the present House of Commons, and makes the second case of husband and wife sitting together in the House. She will, however, be only a temporary member, holding the seat until her husband, Dr. Hugh Dalton. is ready to fight it at the General Election. Dr. Dalton is member for Peckham, but long before the death of Mr. Spoor, who had decided not to contest Bishop Auckland again, he had announced his intention of leaving Peckham for Bishop Auckland, for which he. had been adopted as the prospective Labor candidate. Mr. Spoor's death placed him and bis rjiesent constituents ill Peckham, and tho Labor Party in Bishop Auckland, in a dilemma, for which Mrs. Dalton's candidature, presented a happy solution.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16874, 11 February 1929, Page 7
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