WOMEN'S FRANCHISE.
NOTABLE CONVERSIONS.^. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, March 28. In the House Commons, Mr Asqui'Dh moved the adoption of the report of the Speaker's Conference on electoral reform, and announced his conversion to woman's suffrage. Mr Lloyd George supported the motion, and urged an early. non-pan..» settlement, in the interests of the whole Empire's post-war reconstruction. He opposed the dilatary unionism amendment. He added that the report was one of the most remarkable concordats in our political history. It would b& criminal folly to throw away this opportunity of settling the vexed question, which must be faced before peace. Parliamentary agreement was possible i>f sought on the lines of the Commission's proposals, providing for simplified registration, * one day elections, and redistribution with proportional representation. Regarding women's suffrage he confessed that his views had changed during the war. Previously he, was opposed to it on the grounds of public .expediency, thinking that women ought to work out their own salvation. They had worked it out during the war, which we could not ■have carried on without them. '
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16232, 30 March 1917, Page 2
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179WOMEN'S FRANCHISE. Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16232, 30 March 1917, Page 2
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