Catherine Wilson Lovell-Smith nee Malcolm – Kate Sheppard (1848- 1934)

For world famous suffragette, Kate Sheppard, the following comment did little to put her off her ambitions… “…recommended to go home, look after their children, cook their husbands’ dinners, empty the slobs and generally attend to domestic affairs for which nature designed them; they should stop meddling in masculine concerns at which they are profoundly …

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union Began – May 1885

Within seven months of the arrival of American-born Temperance Movement member, Mary Clement Leavitt, ten branches of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union were established across New Zealand, including Christchurch in May 1885. This was New Zealand’s first nationwide, all woman, mass organisation and it remains the world’s oldest voluntary, non sectarian organisation today. It was …