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… College, where she studied law. In 1906 she was the second woman in New Zealand to qualify as a solicitor of the Supreme Court and, three years later, she became the first woman to practise law independently. In 1913 she was …
… Tainui canoe. Other important lines of descent made her a woman of highest rank amongst her own people and the closely … Raukawa tribe. She was noted for her love affairs, and her first husband, Te Ra Tu Tonu, was called from a besieged pa … to cursing songs pouring hatred on the enemy. A masterful woman, she had a pitiless temper and once ordered the death …
… formed for this purpose. In 1896 Ada Wells became the first secretary of the National Council of Women and was … women members of the Canterbury Hospital Board, the second woman to sit on the Charitable Aid Board, and, in 1917, she became the first woman elected to the Christchurch City Council. As a …
… (1873–1935). First woman member of Parliament. A new biography of … for the Lyttelton electorate by a large majority as the first woman member of Parliament. In Parliament her main …
… record she received her B.A. in 1877 and became the first woman in New Zealand — and possibly in the British Empire — …
… She was one of the two daughters of a clergyman of the First Church of Scotland and her maiden name was probably McKellar. Her mother, “a devout christian woman”, died of cancer when Minnie was 11 years of age. …
… where her father was administering “medicine” to the sick woman. She went to see what she could do, and arrived in … be told by her mother: “Your father has poisoned me for the woman in the big hat and cloak”. The unfortunate woman then … at his trial. Mr Justice H. S. Chapman presided at the first trial in March 1865, and the strongest possible case …
… Otago University, Dunedin. Dr Cruikshanks was the second woman to graduate in medicine in New Zealand; she obtained … of M.D. and C.M. (N.Z.), and had the honour of being the first to go into general practice. She lived at Waimate, …
… appointment of policewomen, it was not until 1941 that the first six were sworn in. At first they were not in uniform and were mainly on office … is usually a deterrent to bad behaviour. In 1958 the first woman passed the police sergeants' examination to …