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New Zealand takes its medicine, suffrage cartoon

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This cartoon shows a woman giving a boy (‘Young New Zealand’) medicine from a bottle labelled ‘Women’s Vote’.

Woman: ‘Come, come, my boy you have not been looking very well lately. Better try a dose of this nice medicine. It will do you good.’

Young New Zealand: ‘I don't like your medicine, thank-you, and I’m feeling all right. But I guess I’ll have to swallow it. Maybe it won’t hurt me.’

Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library
Papers Past
Reference: New Zealand Observer, 2 December 1893, p1
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa must be obtained before any reuse of this image.

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New Zealand takes its medicine, suffrage cartoon, URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/new-zealand-takes-its-medicine-suffrage-cartoon, (Manatū Taonga — Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated