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“In this city of Christchurch,” declared Miss Roberts at the public meeting called by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, “yo,u can see any amount of dirt about that would not exist if women were in authority. I hare a grievance against a Dunedin reporter . When I was in Dunedin I said that women had a greater sense of cleanliness than men, and what do you think the reporter made me say ? He reported me' as saying that men ha dno sense of cleanliness. I did not 1 say that, and I am not going to say it, but I do say that women have a greater sense of cleanliness, a greater sense of order, a greater sense of propriety, a greater sense of beauty.’ A courageous man who lifted up his voice in a gathering composed exclusively of women —members of tho Women’s Christian Temperance Union and their friends —and opposed the claims that women should bo allowed to do virtually everything that is done by men, urged that the indirect influence of the ladies was so strong oven now, that if direct and legal powers were added, the masculine sex might as well be extinct. As regards the parliamentary claims put forward, he hold that it was'clearly the men's business'to make the laws, since, owing to their superior strength, they must always be tho sex to enforce them. Ho\v would women act as constables, and run in drunken men? “I think they would be better than men for arresting drunken women,” quickly observed a lady. Another stated that if one of tho qualifications for making laws was physical strength to enforce them, men candidates for Parliament should he measured and subjected to tile test of the spirometer, and several that were in the House at present would doubtless be disqualified.