WOMEN'S INSTITUTES
Sir,-In a letter to The Listener of December 3, 1946, J.W.M. (Auckland) presumed that Women’s Institutes started about 1893 in New Zealand, and suggested that I did some research on the matter. "It was, I think, in 1896 that I listened in the Old Provincial Council Chamber in Christchurch to the opening of the Annual Conference of nearly 400 delegates," the writer stated. With the assistance of the librarian of the Christchurch Public Library and after some research I have discovered that the conference which J.W.M. remembers was a conference of representatives of 11 women’s associations who met in Christchurch in 1896 to constitute the National Council of Women in New Zealand. As early as 1863, the Onehunga Ladies’ Benevolent Society was formed; in 1878, the Y.W.C.A.; in 1885, the W.C.T.U.; and by 1897 there were 14 women’s associations, including the Women’s Social and Political League, the Girls’ Friendly Society, and Mothers’ Unions. Others which belong to this century are Women’s Institutes, Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union (now Federated Farmers), and Townswomen’s Guilds. All histories of this country which provide information concerning the women of New Zealand state that Women’s Institutes in New Zealand were founded in 1921.
BARBARA
HARPER
(Geraldine).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 406, 3 April 1947, Page 17
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204WOMEN'S INSTITUTES New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 406, 3 April 1947, Page 17
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