NO VOTE, NO TAXES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3266, 11 July 1911, Page 5

NO VOTE, NO TAXES

PRINCESS’S PROTEST.

Princess Sophia- Duleep Singh, of Faraday House, Hampton Court, has been fined' at Felthain for keeping five dogs -without licenses. She was further summoned for using armorial bearings, and keeping a carriage and manservant without having taken out the necessary licenses.

Mr Leon Castello, on behalf of Princess. Duleep Singh, said she could not attend the court. He was instructed to admit all the summonses except that relating to armorial bearings. The princess took & very prominent part in the Women’s Suffrage movement, and •she had asked him to protest against “the gross injustice of making women liable to taxation who had: no voice in the' management of the country.” The chairman (Mr John Ashby) remarked that .the Bench had- nothing to do with, that. They had decided to deal with tho dog, summonses t as one case, and for not taking oxit licenses' the ■ princess .would be fined ;£l. .. Slid would also.. be fined’ £1 for keeping an. unlicensed'’ nfalei. servant, and £1 for keeping an. unlicensed carriage., The Bench would take time to consider , their decision as to the alleged armorial hearings .. At Wolverhampton on .Tuesday Mrs Sproson, a member of the executive of the Women’s Fredom League, who was summoned for keeping a dog without a licence, declined to pay any dog licence or any’other tax so long as women had no representation for taxation. She was fined 2s 6d and costs, with the alternative of seven days’ in prison. She preferred tho seven days, and, after conversing with her husband 1 and three women friends, each of whom she kissed, went off to prison.