“GIVE WOMEN A CHANCE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 511, 14 November 1928, Page 11

“GIVE WOMEN A CHANCE”

MRS. MAGUIRE’S PLEA “You are too kind-hearted to put one woman in Parliament, where she might be lonely, but I suggest that you put in the five women candidates who are standing in this election.” An earnest plea that women he given a. chance in Parliament marked the close of Mrs. C. E. Maguire’s campaign as Reform candidate for Auckland East last evening. Mrs. Maguire addressed rowdy, though good-humoured, audiences at the Newmarket Town Hall and St. Sepulchre’s .Hall, being accorded a vote of thanks and confidence at each place. . The Mayor of Newmarket, Mr. S. Donaldson, presided at the first meeting, and Mr. P. J. Crump at the second. Following are a few selected sallies and brisk exchanges of the meetings:— Mrs. Maguire: Not many soldiers have walked off the land during the past three years. A Voice: No. they.have nowhere to go. “I am incapacitated, but I don’t get £I,OOO compensation,” complained' a man at Newmarket. “I get only a third of that.” A Voice: That is right, mate, but you are not dead yet. “Reform women of my class, unlike Labour women, have been too apathetic to vote in the past," asserted Mrs. Maguire. “Too many bridge parties,” suggester a sympathetic listener. “When I put this question to the Prime Minister at West End last evening, he simply collapsed,” declared an interjector at the second meeting. The same man, urged by the audience to sit down, shouted that he would obey the ruling of the chairman, but not the dictates of a crowd of boneheads. The final meeting broke up with cheers and counter-cheers and the singing of “For She’s a Jolly Good Fellow.”