Women in the Council Chamber

These brief political biographies originally featured in an Our City O-Tautahi exhibition from 19 - 30 September 2006, featuring Christchurch’s own “Women in the Council Chamber”, initiated and co-ordinated by Cr Anna Crighton.

Ada Wells Christchurch City Council 1917-1919	Elizabeth Reid McCombs Christchurch City Council 1921-1931, 1933-1935	Annie Elizabeth Herbert Christchurch City Council 1927-1929
Annie Isobel Fraer Christchurch City Council 1929-1933	Mabel Bowden Howard Christchurch City Council 1933-1935, 1938-1941, 1950-1959, 1963-1968	Teresa Green Christchurch City Council 1941-1945, 1947-1957
Mary Elizabeth McLean Christchurch City Council 1941-1965	Alma Schumacher Christchurch City Council 1956-1968	Helen Lavinia Garrett QSO Christchurch City Council 1968-1986
Mary Dorothy Batchelor Christchurch City Council 1971-1977	Nancy May Webber Sutherland JP Christchurch City Council 1971-1977	Taelomu Louisa Crawley Christchurch City Council 1980-1983
Louise LeBrun Moore Christchurch City Council 1983-1986	Anne Evans Christchurch City Council 1983-1986	Margaret Elizabeth Murray JP Christchurch City Council 1992-1998