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Outlines of Women's Franchise
Saunders followed in a lighter vein. He reminded Dr. Hodgkinson that Abraham had been commanded to hearken unto the voice of Sarah his wife. Dealing with Mr Reeves' proposal, he remarked that it would not be even half a loaf, in fact it did not amount to more than a ginger-nut. Mr Blake was sure that there was not one good woman in the Colony who wanted the franchise. He opposed it because he did not want to see half the families in New Zealand in dire discord. Mr H. S. Fish (member for Dunedin) was most wordy in his opposition. The most salient part of his oration was that in which he implored the House to try and imagine
