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… of the weariness she experienced, and Harriet Morison, first vice president and later secretary of the Tailoresses' … had stood up for suffrage 'when to declare one's self a woman's franchist was to bring down on your devoted head the … described herself as 'one who worked harder than any other woman in the South Island for the extension of the franchise …
Type: Biography
… are without foundation. The favours of a married woman in New Zealand are fully as difficult of attainment as … in as sacred a light as in the most civilised states.’ 1 First European contact Relationships between Māori and … family, and bring wealth and prestige to the community. First official marriage Ngāpuhi woman Maria Ringa and the …
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Part of story: Intermarriage
… was born probably early in the nineteenth century, for the first of her children was born in 1827. She was the youngest … already had 10 children, 9 of them still alive. As a young woman Wharetutu had gone to live with George at the sealing … Mokomoko married Maria Whitelock-Chapellier; Ann Elizabeth first married Henry McCoy, and then John Pratt or Parata; …
Type: Biography
… in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. After the birth of her first child at Kororāreka in 1838, Sarah Dougherty found her … had established a whaling station. As the only European woman on the whaling station Sarah Dougherty lived an … on 7 November 1898. A daughter, Ellen , was one of the first state-registered nurses in the world and first matron …
Type: Biography
… in London on 3 June 1914 and would have two sons. After the First World War the family lived in Scotland. In 1921 they left Britain to settle in Canada, but first visited New Zealand and decided to stay. They settled … in 1927 and was president of the RAOU in 1932–33: the first woman to hold this office. Her presidential address, 'Birds …
Type: Biography
… In 1974 access to abortion became easier when New Zealand’s first abortion clinic opened. There was fierce support for … rapidly through the 1970s and 1980s. In 1971 the rate per woman was 0.02. By 1986 it was 0.30. First abortion clinic The Auckland Medical Aid Centre (AMAC) …
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Part of story: Abortion
… In the first half of the 20th century more men became ‘family men’ … during the 1930s depression to less than 2.1 births per woman, and the Sex Hygiene and Birth Regulation Society … the same jobs. Love, romance and the ‘new woman’ After the First World War , many women cut their hair, embraced …
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Part of story: Families: a history
… on the Christchurch Press in 1917. She was one of the first women journalists to sit in the press gallery at … 'Sally Forth', she contributed to 'The Voice of the Enzed Woman' column. This gave her the opportunity to discuss … women's political issues from a feminist perspective. Her first published book, Piriki's princess (1925), was a …
Type: Biography
… 22 November 1865. Five years later they moved to Foxton, at first living in a surveyor's tent while a large house was … is revealed as a prominent social activist. She saw herself first and foremost as a mother, often signing her letters 'A … women to participate in public life, and became the first woman member of a hospital board. In 1896 she stood for …
Type: Biography
… her position until 1934. In that year she was elected the first woman executive vice president of the PSA. Not until 1978 … as one of the early women career public servants and as the first woman to hold high office in the PSA. …
Type: Biography
… moved to Wellington. Here her father became involved with a woman named Bridget Quinlan; in 1872 a son, James Paul, was … Wellington in June 1883 Annette Paul attended some of the first meetings. Although she had received a conventional … in London, at which she was promoted to staff captain, the first New Zealand woman to hold staff rank. She was …
Type: Biography
… child, Jessie , was born on 15 December 1864 with only a woman neighbour in attendance. Two more children were born … flour. For two years Elizabeth Mackay did not see another woman. She had busy days teaching the children, cooking, … ability to cope with the loneliness and privations of her first years in New Zealand left a lasting impression on her …
Type: Biography
… on who was involved, the methods used, and how much a woman could pay. The range was wide. In the mid-1930s, Annie … methods Many women desperate to end a pregnancy would first try to do so at home. Attempts to induce miscarriage … Large amounts of metallic poisons or quinine could kill the woman, and ergot could cause gangrene and mental …
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Part of story: Abortion
… with William Arrol and Company, engineers. During the First World War she became a crane operator and supervisor … took courses at Canterbury College School of Art, winning first prize for craft in 1927. By 1928 the Ellens had moved … North Canterbury Electric Power Board, becoming the first woman in New Zealand to win a seat on an electric power …
Type: Biography
… sub-editor in 1960 and news editor in 1976, probably the first woman news editor of a daily paper in New Zealand. Known to … as ‘AJ’, and barely five feet tall, Litman was a feisty woman who did not hesitate to excoriate young reporters for …
Type: Biography
… As editor of the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly for 32 years, Jean Wishart became a virtual … to her appointment to the board of New Zealand News, the first woman to hold this position, and five years later she was the first woman elected to the council of the Auckland Chamber …
Type: Biography
… were strained and at 13 she was forced to find employment, first at dressmaking and then as a domestic servant. While … and was commissioned as a lieutenant in September 1899. Her first appointment, rescue work for girls on the streets of … a century. In 1945 Annie Gordon became New Zealand's first woman recipient of the Salvation Army's highest honour, the …
Type: Biography
… Fulloon , born in 1840 to an English father and a leading woman of Tūhoe. He became an interpreter, gathering secret … the MP for Eastern Māori in 1887 and from 1893 was the first Māori to represent a general electorate. He had great … woman in the country in the 1950s after she was elected first president of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, in …
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Part of story: Cultural go-betweens
… women’s branch of the party, serving as president for its first five years. She was also an executive member of the … local Labour Representation Committee and in 1946 was the first woman to be elected president of a divisional council of the …
Type: Biography
… official scorer for its senior team. Discouraged from her first choice of law as a career by her father, who was … Here she made her most significant contribution and the first effective planning scheme for Christchurch was … at the University of Auckland in 1957. She was the first woman president of the Town and County Planning Institute …
Type: Biography