Heritage

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.

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Ada Wells
Christchurch City Council
1917-1919
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Elizabeth Reid McCombs
Christchurch City Council
1921-1931, 1933-1935
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Annie Elizabeth Herbert
Christchurch City Council
1927-1929
imageAnnie Isobel Fraer Christchurch City Council
1929-1933
PhotographMabel Bowden Howard Christchurch City Council
1933-1935, 1938-1941, 1950-1959, 1963-1968
PhotographTeresa Green Christchurch City Council
1941-1945, 1947-1957
PhotographMary Elizabeth McLean Christchurch City Council
1941-1965
PhotographAlma Schumacher Christchurch City Council
1956-1968
PhotographHelen Lavinia Garrett QSO Christchurch City Council
1968-1986
PhotographMary Dorothy Batchelor Christchurch City Council
1971-1977
PhotographNancy May Webber Sutherland JP Christchurch City Council
1971-1977
PhotographTaelomu Louisa Crawley Christchurch City Council
1980-1983
PhotographLouise LeBrun Moore Christchurch City Council
1983-1986
PhotographAnne Evans Christchurch City Council
1983-1986
PhotographMargaret Elizabeth Murray JP Christchurch City Council
1992-1998