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Following the Equator
Part 4

CHAPTER XXXII
10/15

This is woman's opportunity--she has had none before.

I wonder where man will be in another forty-seven years?
In the New Zealand law occurs this: "The word person wherever it occurs throughout the Act includes woman." That is promotion, you see.

By that enlargement of the word, the matron with the garnered wisdom and experience of fifty years becomes at one jump the political equal of her callow kid of twenty-one.

The white population of the colony is 626,000, the Maori population is 42,000.

The whites elect seventy members of the House of Representatives, the Maoris four.


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