Helen Simpson

Helen Simpson is principally remembered for writing The women of New Zealand, published in 1940 as one of a series of government-sponsored centennial surveys.

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Julia Wallace

She was the first woman to become a city councillor in Palmerston North, serving from 1962 to 1968. Because of her disability, she worked tirelessly for the New Zealand Crippled Children Society.

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Nancy Russell

Through her imaginative direction of drama and her insistence on clear oral expression, Nancy Russell made a notable contribution to the development of effective spoken and written communication among her many pupils in Taranaki.

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Ruth Page

Ruth Page came to prominence in 1955 when she led the controversial and much publicised Nelson women’s railway protest.

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