Elizabeth Yates - First Woman Mayor in the British Empire

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Elizabeth Yates - First Woman Mayor in the British Empire

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Radio New Zealand

Description

The year is 1893, the month November and the people of Onehunga have just done an extraordinary thing. Only three months after New Zealand became the first country to give women the vote, this small Auckland borough elected the empire's first female mayor. Her name was Elizabeth Yates.

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Audio

Date created

05 June 2015

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New Zealand Society

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http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/nz-society/audio/201757061/elizabeth-yates-first-wom...

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