GALLERIES OF HOUSE
Separation Of Sixes (F.0.P.R.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 1. It is not the practice in the House of Representatives to allow husbands and wives or, for that matter, any members of opposite sexes to sit together in the galleries of the House. According to Mr J. P. McDavitt, Town Clerk, Eastbourne, it is a practice which should be altered, and to-day he presented a petition to the House asking that husbands and waves should be allowed to sit together. Petitioner declared that the practice of the House in not permitting husbands and wives to occupy adjoining seats in the galleries of the House was contrary to the principles of equality, introduced an undesirable division of the marital state and was not conducive to a complete understanding of the working of Parliament which was essential to the efficient operation of democratic principle. The practice was also a relic of the time when women in the House of Commons were only able to view the proceedings through a grille and, generally, was an archaic proceeding not consonant with the present position of women in society.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23347, 2 November 1945, Page 4
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