Local Government Qualification Act: A public meeting will be held at the Caxton Hall on Tuesda next, the 23rd inst. at 4,30 p.m. in support of Dr. Shipman’s bill. Mr. Walter S. B. McLaren will preside, and the speakers will be Mrs. Pinsent (Birmingham Education Committee), Mrs. Allan Bright (Liverpool), Miss Lucy Moreland (Croydon Education Committee), and Mrs. Ashton (Brighton). Mr. Will Crooks, M.P., hopes to be present to speak. Dr. Shipman’s bill applies to the case of county and borough councils a provision of the Local Government Act, 1894, whereby a residential qualification is made alternative with the electoral qualification for being eligible to sit on boards of guardian district and parish councils. It would enable many women to offer themselves as candidates for election to town and county council’s who are not ineligible, owing to marriage or to residence in their parents’ house.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949