[[14]] Autobiography, p. 241.
[[15]] The census of 1911 shows that the excess of women over men is in the proportion of 1068 women to 1000 men, and that this proportion has changed but little during the last hundred and ten years.
[[16]] Record of Women's Suffrage, by Helen Blackburn, pp. 53, 54, 55.
[[17]] Record of Women's Suffrage, p. 190, by Helen Blackburn.
[[18]] A few isolated associations of Liberal women had existed before this. There was one at Bristol started in 1881; but nothing was done on an extended scale till 1886.
[[19]] An important new departure in journalism was taken by The Standard in October 1911. This paper now devotes more than a page daily to a full statement both of events and arguments bearing on all sides of the suffrage and other women's questions.
[[20]] See Outlines of the Women's Franchise Movement in New Zealand, by W. Sydney Smith. Whitecombe & Tombs, Ltd., Christchurch, N.Z. 1905.
[[21]] See Report by Sir Charles Lucas, who visited New Zealand on behalf of the Colonial Office in 1907.
[[22]] See Colonial Statesmen and Votes for Women, published by The Freedom League, p. 6.
[[23]] See letter from Miss Alice Stone Blackwell in Manchester Guardian, July 12, 1911.