Mabel Wilson
New Zealand domestic worker and community leader
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Nielsine Paget
New Zealand homemaker and community worker
Turikatuku
New Zealand Māori tribal leader
Mary Ellen
New Zealand rural women’s advocate, community leader and hairdresser
Rachel Reynolds
New Zealand social worker, community leader
Rere-ō-maki
New Zealand Māori leader
Pinepine Te Rika
Tūhoe woman of mana
Te Puea Hērangi
Waikato woman of mana, Kīngitanga leader
Maria Rye
Social reformer and a promoter of emigration from England, especially of young women living in Liverpool workhouses, to the colonies of the British Empire, especially Canada.
Shirley Smith
New Zealand human-rights campaigner and trail-blazing lawyer. As a community activist from the early 1950s she fought for social and political reform, while as a lawyer she spoke for those who had no voice and pursued equal rights for all.