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VI.
Introduction.

crowned our long struggle more attributable than to Mrs Sheppard and her colleagues for the judgment and the tenacity of purpose with which they worked to influence public and Parliamentary opinion. But for their perseverance, as well as their moderation, the opposition which was offered to the enfranchisement of women would have been very difficult to overcome."

"Yours faithfully,

"John Hall."

One word more. I have, and I think rightly, termed Mrs Miiller the pioneer worker in the enfranchisement of women in New Zealand. Yet as early as 1843 Mr Alfred Saunders and Sir William Fox advocated Woman Suffrage in the Colony. This fact has only just been