Pages tagged “Suffrage Day”

  • Celebrating Suffrage in Southland 2025

    Southland Branch celebrated Suffrage Day in two parts this year. The first was our traditional breakfast on 19 September at the Ascot Park Hotel where more than fifty persons mixed, mingled and chatted. They included students from local secondary schools who always respond very positively to the occasion. This year we especially welcomed Josh, Josh and Tom from Southland Boy’s High School, a first for that school. When asked, they said they enjoyed the breakfast, and the speakers and, yes,...

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    25 October 2025

  • On the Money! Wellington Branch hosts panel discussing gender and the economy

    In September, the Wellington Branch of the National Council of Women New Zealand co-hosted a panel intending to put women and gender at the centre of a conversation about the economy. Annual Women’s Debate organising team with the panel

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    1 November 2024

  • Suffrage Day 2024 Commemoration with Manukau Branch

    NCWNZ Manukau Branch held a Suffrage Day commemoration on Saturday 21 September 2024 at the historic St David’s Anglican Hall, 813 Great South Road, Wiri, Auckland. The guest speaker was Colleen Brown, writer, speaker and author, so she covered a wide range of interesting subjects. She also brought along some of her story books for children (such as Violet's Scarf, a story of an eight-year-old girl in 1915) with the option for attendees to buy one. This offer was eagerly...

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    1 November 2024

  • Suffrage Day event on women in construction

    The National Association of Women in Construction NZ (NAWIC) in partnership with the Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation (BCITO) hosted a panel of industry leaders and role models in Wellington on Suffrage Day 2024. The topic was "We Belong - Women Pioneering the Future in Construction." Panellists were Prof Deidre Brown (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu) an architectural historian and head of Te Pare School of Architecture and Planning; Beryl Anderson ONZM, NCWNZ; Antoinette Howard, a BCITO apprentice; and Alice Carmody, Director...

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    21 October 2024

  • Suffrage Day event in Hamilton

    Some photographs from Hamilton's Suffrage Day event at Zenders Cafe, Sunday 22 September 2024. View of guests enjoying afternoon tea.

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    15 October 2024

  • Suffrage Memorial Presentation by NCWNZ Manukau Branch

    (l-r) Judi Goldworthy and Christine Knock Christine Knock, NCWNZ Life Member, approached Papatoetoe War Memorial Library to see if they were interested in the Manukau Branch of NCWNZ undertaking a presentation at the Library regarding the Auckland Women's Suffrage Memorial at Khartoum Place and Te Hā o Hine Place, in Auckland Central. The Library staff agreed, and so this was undertaken on 17 September 2024. 

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    13 October 2024

  • Presentation by Trish Lindsay ONZM for Suffrage Day

    “Where you are is where you are meant to be,” is the encouragement given by Mordecai to his cousin Queen Esther, wife of King Xerxes during a crisis in Persia around the year 750 BCE. Those words seemed to epitomise the various stages in the life of Trish Lindsay ONZM, as she related them to a gathering of around fifty women, including a group of secondary students, as the NCWNZ Southland Branch celebrated 131 years of women’s suffrage. Trish said,...

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    9 October 2024

  • Mt Albert Women's Memorial Sculpture

    Ōwairaka, Statue of a Cloaked Woman, Alice Wylie Reserve, Mt Albert, NZ. Photograph by Rich Greissman, September 2024, used by permission. In Jill Pierce's The Suffrage Trail: A guide to places, memorials ad the arts commemorating New Zealand women (1995) on page 31 is a description of a sculpture erected in the Alice Wylie Reserve in Mt Albert, Auckland in 1995. According to Pierce, the women of Mt Albert had fundraised for eighteen months to pay the artist for a suffrage...

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    24 September 2024