Coalville Times | 1902-07-11 | Page 6 | Women of the Antipodes

Womin of th Antipodes. Th female voter, the female barrister, barris-ter, tha female auctioneer and tha female sharebruker have already arrived ar-rived at tha Antipodes, and now tha lady Juror and the lady magistrate are promised. Asked whether ha Intended In-tended to Introduce a measure giving women the right to act aa Jurors, th premier of New Houth Wales repl!d: "I see no rcaxun why woman should not act as Jurors." "They would tako a long tlni to come to a decision," eome member Interjected. In-terjected. "That may be." rejoined th premier. pre-mier. "1 believe In women having tha aama rights aa nun. aud, ao far aa 1 am conierned, 1 Intend that th women of New South Walsa shall hav them." I-ondon Chroulolo.