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