Wednesday 19 September 2012 is Suffrage / White Camellia Day.
You can see the names of those who signed the 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition.
Join Women on Air for their celebration of Suffrage Day – and 20 years of broadcasting! -Wednesday at 7.30pm Middleton Grange. It will feature actress Helen Moran as Kate Sheppard and Port Hills MP Ruth Dyson will read the maiden speech of Elizabeth McCombs, New Zealand’s first female MP. Michele A’Court will read a piece called “A letter to my daughter”.
Explore more about New Zealand suffrage and the awesome women of Aotearoa. Digital NZ has a neat set of images Cartooning the women’s vote. Why not watch NZ on screen …
- Suffrage Day nzhistory.net.nz
- Our page on Elizabeth McCombs
- Our page on Kate Sheppard
- Unsung heroines – biographies of Christchurch women
- More Christchurch biographies
Search our catalogue for women’s suffrage and women’s rights in New Zealand.
Public notice for a meeting on the present and outlook of woman’s suffrage to be held at the Oddfellows Hall, Lichfield Street, Christchurch [20 Oct. 1892]
19 September 2012 at 9:37 am
What channel/station?
19 September 2012 at 10:06 am
Hi – Women on air is on PlainsFM 96.9
20 September 2012 at 12:00 pm
Visit the Kate Sheppard Memorial Walk at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, planted in 1993 with mainly white camellias, to commemorate Kate and as symbols of womanly excellence. From the carpark at Armagh Street, turn right along the river before you cross the footbridge into the Gardens. There is an interpretation panel about 50m further on, and the walk drops down along the river by the old Pilgrims’ Well. Lovely camellias this time of year.