Today in NZ history- 19/09/1893 - Women win the right to vote When the governor, Lord Glasgow, signed a new Electoral Act into law, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant all adult women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
- 20/09/1954 - Mazengarb report releasedThe Mazengarb inquiry into ‘juvenile delinquency’ blamed the perceived promiscuity of the nation’s youth on working mothers, the ready availability of contraceptives, and young women enticing men to have sex.
- 21/09/1834 - Rescue of Harriet survivors beginsThe family of the whaler Jacky Guard were among a group of Pākehā captured by Māori in May 1834 after the barque Harriet ran aground on the Taranaki coast.
- 22/09/1906 - Domestic workers call for 68-hour weekAt a meeting in Wellington, Marianne Tasker and supporters established a domestic workers’ union, hoping to use the Liberal government’s Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act to force employers to improve pay and conditions. Central to their demands was a 68-hour working week.
- 19/09/1893 - Women win the right to vote
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