HONOUR FOR MRS. PANKHURST.
We read m the British Journal of Nursing that Britain has decided to honour the late Airs. Pankhurst by erecting' a statue m Westminster to her memory. An ideal site has been granted by the Government m the Victoria Tower Gardens adjoining the Houses of Parliament. An appeal is made for funds to augment those already subscribed by her personal friends.
This will, when erected, be one more monument for nurses, who so long m New Zealand have had the franchise, to see when m the Old Country. Airs. Pankhurst was a great leader who devoted her life to the cause n\ women, and was one of the great pioneers who fought so strenuously and suffered so much to gain the vote for women, that vote which only so recently has been extended to the younger women,
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Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XXII, Issue 4, 1 November 1929, Page 218
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141HONOUR FOR MRS. PANKHURST. Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XXII, Issue 4, 1 November 1929, Page 218
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