KNIGHTHOODS GIVEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 687, 12 June 1929, Page 1

KNIGHTHOODS GIVEN

ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND SOLICITOR-GENERAL

A WOMAN’S DIFFICULTIES

Australian and X.Z. Press Association (United Service)

Reed. 11.55 a.m. LONDON, Tuesday. The customary knighthoods have been conferred on the AttorneyGeneral, Mr. W. A. Jowitt, K.C., and the Solicitor-General, Mr. J. B. Melville, K.C.

Miss Margaret Bondfield, Minister of Labour, as the first woman Privy Councillor, can only assert her rights to equal recognition with men if she goes to the King’s levees wearing velvet knee-breeches and a cocked hat. That, says the “Daily News,” is at present the only solution of the problem which her appointment creates.

Responsible officials are hoping the occasion will not arise when they will have to tell Miss Bondfield she may have entered the Cabinet, but levees are such a male province that she can only attend ill male guise, as levee dress is the only costume recognised. On the other hand. Mr. Austin Herslet, chief clerk in the Lord Chamberlain's office, a leading authority on Court dress and the author of a textbook on the subject, says Miss Bondfield, in attending Court functions, would wear a woman's usual Court dress, as there is no rising upon the unprecedented question of a woman Privy Councillor's costume.