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… in her second year. In 1896 Siedeberg became New Zealand's first woman medical graduate. She worked as a locum for one month at Seacliff Lunatic Asylum (thus becoming the first New Zealand woman practitioner in the country), before …
Type: Biography
… her Swedish husband, Anton Anderson, a miner, she spent her first years with her family in a two-roomed shack beside her … Bennett and W. T. Mills speak in Greymouth, and during the First World War she supported the local labour movement's … in August 1943, and in June 1945 became reputedly the first woman in New Zealand to sit on a Magistrate's Court bench. …
Type: Biography
… Wellington during the session of 1884, and was probably the first woman to assume this role. In 1891 she became the first woman to be admitted as a member of the New Zealand …
Type: Biography
… of Representatives. In 1896 she was reputedly the country's first official female shorthand reporter, for a Legislative … of the Bank of New Zealand. Barnicoat had obtained Pitman's first-class certificate in shorthand in 1895, and in May … local commentators, who referred to this outspoken young woman as 'a first class scold'. She also instituted the …
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… important service to the community. A large and competent woman, Mabel Baker was one of the few women of the time to … married returned serviceman and farmer Frank Gunn in the first wedding at St Luke's Church, Whataroa. Mabel was … the local telephone exchange. In late 1948 New Zealand's first woman cabinet minister and minister of health, Mabel …
Type: Biography
… climbed through the 1990s and stabilised at around 0.6 per woman from 2002. In international terms, this was a moderate … In other regions abortions were available only in the first trimester. Abortion picket Picketing outside abortion … made it a procedure to which a woman was entitled in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. After that, she had to satisfy …
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Part of story: Abortion
… dux of the school in 1917 and 1918. In 1919 she became the first girl in the history of the school to win a Junior … Prize in Latin in 1922 and graduated BA in 1923 and MA with first-class honours in Latin and French in 1924. In 1923 she … school inspectorate in Wellington, becoming only the second woman, following Jessie Hetherington, to do so. In her first …
Type: Biography
… College, University of Cambridge, where she completed the first year of her economics tripos. The education she … of the company that ran the Wanganui Herald, probably the first woman in the country to hold such a position. Vladimir died …
Type: Biography
… because it advocated a property-based franchise. During the First World War she helped the dependants of enlisted men. … for the government railway service. Catherine became the first secretary of the Wellington After-care Association, … a grocery store in Cuba Street. In 1935 New Zealand’s first woman MP, Elizabeth McCombs, died, and the following year …
Type: Biography
… fullback for the New Zealand rugby league team. As a young woman Dot was a talented cricket and hockey player, … and Auckland at both sports. In 1938 she managed the first New Zealand women’s cricket team to tour overseas, … editor Geoff Black. Women’s cricket and hockey were her first assignments, but when the Star found it had no one to …
Type: Biography
… cricket revived in England, Australia and New Zealand. The first New Zealand women’s interprovincial cricket tournament … a touring England side overwhelmed New Zealand in their first test match. In 1954 the New Zealand women toured … her first test for New Zealand at 16. She became the first woman to score 1,000 test runs. In five World Cups between …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Cricket
… New suburbs gave thousands of New Zealand families their first opportunity to own their own house on their own land. … Many houses built in the suburbs that sprouted after the First World War were based on the ‘California bungalow’ … maintain it comfortably without the help of servants. A woman’s world During the day the suburban house was a …
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Part of story: Suburbs
… were a poor second-best for protein. Protein sources At first, the lack of pigs and chickens may not have seemed … to store tubers for both eating and planting. The way to a woman’s heart A story of a high-born young woman choosing a … cultigens suggests that horticulture must have begun from first settlement. Aruhe (fern root) While horticulture …
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Part of story: Te mahi kai – food production economics
… She was a strong supporter of women's suffrage and was the first woman to record her vote in the electorate under the new … F. W. Court, at the election of 29 November, to become the first woman mayor in the British Empire. This radical …
Type: Biography
… procedure. It involves the simple transfer of sperm into a woman’s uterus. This can be done by medical professionals, or may be done by the woman herself using a device like a syringe. DI is only … couples to have children. In-vitro fertilisation The first in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment in New Zealand …
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Part of story: Infertility and childlessness
… the Wellington Education Board inspector, planned to have a first-rate infant school as a training centre for his … by the staff. A former pupil remembered that Francis was 'a woman of amazing vitality, energy and enthusiasm'; at the … work of the New Zealand Educational Institute, being the first woman to appear in its records, and the first to …
Type: Biography
… 1907, 1909 and 1914. She is also thought to have been the first woman to obtain a driver's licence; she was to continue … in foursome competitions with them. Her son started the first golf club at Wanganui Collegiate School when he was a …
Type: Biography
… for an MA in English and French, eventually graduating with first-class honours. In 1911 she went teaching at … brother to the South Island where she became possibly the first woman to climb the Remarkables. In 1913 Frances Clarke, …
Type: Biography
… upon James Scott, the headmaster of a boys' school. At first reluctant to accept a girl, Scott (like all Helen's … man, Macmillan Brown agreed to enrol Helen as the college's first woman student. His decision settled once and for all the …
Type: Biography
… of New Plymouth police, she applied to become a policewoman. On 23 April 1943 she was one of 19 or 20 women … training at the police depot in Newtown, Wellington. At first she found the course difficult and some activities, … the course. In Auckland from 2 March 1944, Nora found her first duties as Constable W35 complicated by the presence of …
Type: Biography