26 OCTOBER 1929, Page 2

Canadian Women and the Senate The Judicial Committee of the

Privy Council has given the important judgment that women are eligible for the Canadian Senate. Everything turned upon the interpretation of the Word "person " in the British North America Act of 1867. The Judicial 'Committee held that as the phrase "male person" is occasionally used in the Act, the simple phrase " person " must be held to mean either man or woman. The decision is likely to have its effeat upon the claim of Peeresses in their own right to sit in the 'House of Lords.

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