ABSTRACT
Mr. Woodeson (Portsmouth) moved a proposition to enable representatives of female lodges to attend district meetings, wherever such meetings are held. He said that now female lodges were branches of the Unity, and were taxed for various purposes, they could not refuse them representation at district meetings. He admitted there were objections to female representation at district meetings held on licensed premises, but urged that attendance at a business meeting was different to frequenting a public-house for the purpose of drinking. ,
Mrs. Read (Woolwich), the only lady at the meeting, supported the proposition, and urged that female representatives were as well able to uphold Odd-fellowship on licensed premises as on unlicensed.
