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 time and consideration have been given to the passing of laws which affect more or less the social life of all classes. The nature of our recent legislation has been so pronounced as to attract the attention of thinkers outside the Colony, some of whom have visited New Zealand in order to study the effect of its legislation first hand. One of these, Mr H. D. Lloyd, of America, in lecturing on this Colony to an audience at Berlin, said: "In most countries civilisation is an excrescence, in New Zealand it is an efflorescence." Without wishing to exaggerate, it may be safely said that the advent of women into the politics of this Colony has been a great