WOMEN LEGISLATORS.
A CONFIDENT PREDICTION
(Per Press Association.)
, AUCKLAND, March 12. '' At a welcome tendered this afternoon to the delegates of the W.C.T.U. now visiting Auckland, Mrs. Cole, the New Zealand President, confidently prophesied that there -vyould be women legislators in the not far distant. future, II And when we have them," she added, many will be far" more capable than some of the men now in the House." Mrs. Cole went on to refer to the humour of the situation when the Infant Life Protection Bill was before tha 'House. " They do the best they can poor things." she said, " and if they won t let us help them inside Parliament we must do the best we can outside."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 13 March 1908, Page 7
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120WOMEN LEGISLATORS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 13 March 1908, Page 7
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