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    Vincent Aspey

    When nine-year-old Vincent Aspey persuaded his mother to buy a violin he had spotted in a second-hand shop she was dubious that he would practice, let alone come to be described as ‘synonymous with orchestral development in New Zealand’.

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Women's suffrage day

1893 Women's suffrage day

Governor Lord Glasgow signed a new Electoral Act into law, making New Zealand the first self-governing country in the world to grant all women the right to vote in parliamentary elections. more...

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Brief history - women and the voteWomen MPs - Parliament's peoplePolitical and constitutional timelineAda WellsJohn HallJohn Ballance

External links

  • Women's suffrage petition (Archives NZ)
  • Votes for women (Elections NZ)
  • Monumental Stories (Learning Media)
  • Liberal to Labour (Te Ara)
  • The electoral system (Te Ara)
  • Kate Sheppard biography (DNZB)
  • John Ballance biography (DNZB)
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