Kate Sheppard Memorial Statue. Christchurch. New Zealand.
S 43° 31.835 E 172° 38.010
59G E 631993 N 5178966
Located on the riverbank reserve in Oxford Terrace behind Visitors Information Centre, a stone memorial with a life sized bronze relief sculpture featuring Kate Sheppard and other women who fought for the right to vote in New Zealand.
Waymark Code: WM7VNG
Location: South Island, New Zealand
Date Posted: 12/08/2009
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New Zealand women were granted the vote on the 19th of September 1893, when the approval of the Governor was finally given to the Electoral Bill passed by Parliament eleven days earlier.
This success came at the end of an enormous struggle by suffragists in New Zealand, led by Kate Sheppard. 31, 872 signatures were collected during a seven year campaign, which culminated in the 1893 petition for the enfranchisement of women being presented to Parliament in a wheelbarrow. It was the largest petition ever gathered in Australasia.
This memorial statue panel honours Kate Sheppard and other women who fought for the right to vote. Sculptor Margriet Windhausen has created a stone memorial with a life sized bronze relief sculpture. In this sculpture Kate Sheppard is flanked by other suffragists. The group of women are depicted taking the petition to parliament in a cart. The panel is flagged by two bronze plaques inscribed with the history of the Women’s Suffrage movement in NZ, mounted on a upright ornate concrete plinth.
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