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 of the New Zealand W.C. T.U., and entrusted to Sir John Hall, who had agreed to present it.

Sir John also undertook to move the required amendments in the interpretation clauses when the Electoral Bill came before the House. So much time, however, was spent over the revision of the Customs Tariff, and other matters, that the Government found itself unable to proceed with the Bill, and the expected opportunity never came.

On the re-assembling of Parliament in the following year, Sir John Hall lost no time in throwing down the gauntlet to the opponents ot Woman Suffrage. He gave notice that