WCTU-NZ

A DigitalNZ Story by Randolph Hollingsworth

Image: Mary Ann Muller, the lesser-known women's rights pioneer

Mary Ann Muller, the lesser-known women's rights pioneer

Radio New Zealand

Image: New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union :Photograph of an unidentified group of women

New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union :Photograph of an unidentified group of women

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Franchise Report for 1893 of The New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union

Franchise Report for 1893 of The New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Image: Evening Post" Special Photo Service.1 EXTRAORDINARY PROTEST-BYWOMEN.—More than eighty members of-the,Women's Christian Temperance Union-held a prayer meeting outside the brewery, at Otahuhu yesterday morning. "Lets-hope .that this, place will be turned into ajlourmill, a woollen mill, a milk factory, or-even a church," said Mrs. Lee. Cowie, when, addressing her following outside the brewery. The photograph on the- left .shows : •■■/, "; . ■•■ ihe'W.CT.l]'. party marching through-ijia.streets of Otahuhu, and that on the right;shows,the ladies kneeling in prayer after Mrs: Coivie's address. ' (Evening Post, 06 November 1929)

Evening Post" Special Photo Service.1 EXTRAORDINARY PROTEST-BYWOMEN.—More than eighty members of-the,Women's Christian Temperance Union-held a pray...

National Library of New Zealand

Image: CONGRESS OF NATIONS" BY THE DUNEDIN WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. Back Row: Greece, Mias Barton; Spain, Miss Borrow; Rome, Miss Clark; Scotland, Miss Daisy Melville; England, Miss South; Queen of Temperance, Miss Hughes (organiser N.Z.W.C.T.U.); America, Miss Gladys Adams; India, Miss M. Sim/pson; Germany, Miss G. Bedford; Wales, Miss Winnie Broad; South Africa, Miss May Pierson. •■»»•« i -r. !■»*■■ Second Row: Switzerland, Miss Lulie Morrison; Holland, Miss F. Cameron; Iceland, Miss Nina Heatley; Russia, Miss Walker; China, Miss Flo M'Neil; Japan, Miss Bessie South; Persia, Mrs Cook; '.Denmark, Miss Sadie Morrison; Ireland, Miss Ivy Mazengarb; New Zealand, Miss Maisie Dunn. . Front Row: Australia, Miss Olive Adams; Fairy, Mias A. Irvine; Fairy, Miss Hasel Walker; Maori, Miss Dorothy M'Farlane; Fairy, Miss Ruth Bedford; Fairy, Miss G. Irvme. (Otago Witness, 22 June 1904)

CONGRESS OF NATIONS" BY THE DUNEDIN WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. Back Row: Greece, Mias Barton; Spain, Miss Borrow; Rome, Miss Clark; Scotl...

National Library of New Zealand