IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15044, 11 April 1919, Page 5

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

THE HOUSING BILL

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REMOVAL OF WOMEN'S DISABHvI-J.-LKS.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

.* the House of ComS^ \ A three millions of people were Xing il -^e^inT^m^S^ l Vo erS menA,SU^ idy °n the basis Siat local authority would not be required by Cthe? P vUte^ Ore than was educed oy tne levy of a penny rate He said it was estimated that 70 000 arSr^^ iot Nation S XL!? dl?(f aJ. three were seat bhoreditch contained 99 houses maW 153 tenements, in which 733 people were living. The health officer at KinsDury. reported that out of 438 erlf^ f + rOm. tubercillosis 353 were compelled to share a bed or bedroom I M° J erS" i inhabitable houses should be condemned without compen-

-: TKe House of Commons unanimously £**.» second time the Labour Party's Bill abolishing all disabilities on women in respect of civil and judicial offices, and conferring upon them the franchise equally with men, enabling peeresses in their own right to sir in the House of Lords.

Dr. Addison, on behalf of the Government, intimated that they would propose the deletion of the equal franchise clause in committee, but the other principles had been accepted.