37. Viscountess ASTORasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if there is any proposal to print the memorandum of the women of Bermuda in regard to suffrage as a White Paper, with the comments of the Governor and persons concerned; and is the Secretary of State aware that the word male was inserted only last year in the Consolidating Acts in order to exclude women?
§ Dr. SHIELSThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. With regard to the second part, my Noble Friend is of course aware of the provisions of the Parish Vestries Act, 1929, of Bermuda, if that is the Statute to which the Noble Lady refers.
Viscountess ASTORIs the hon. Member able to quote any similar example in any territory governed under the British flag where there is so rigid a tightening up of the law in regard to women?
§ Mr. SPEAKERThe Noble Lady had better put that question upon the Order Paper if she wants all that information.