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September 2012 Call 0800 15 24 72 WHATS ON Let Jock take you on a hair-raising ride over sand dunes to the Kaipara Lighthouse POUTO SAND SAFARIS Jock will take you on a Sand Safari, a hair-raising ride over sand dunes to the Kaipara Lighthouse Call 09 439 6678 Dargaville Museum Harding Park Open daily 09 439 7555 Pouto Sand Safaris Jock will take you on a Sand Safari, a hairraising ride over sand dunes to the Kaipara Lighthouse 09 439 6678 www.pouto.co.nz Walk the Historic River Walk A 5km return walk from Dargaville township to the Dargaville Museum via Mangawhare. Ride Ripiro Beach on a Quad Bike Hire from Baylys Beach Holiday Park Ph 439 6349 Take an Historic River Cruise on the ÒDaisyÓ Walk through Trounson Kauri Park A Mainland Island Trounson Park Rd Kaihu Kai Iwi Lakes Walk Circumnavigate three dune lakes. Easy walking. Vintage Machinery Club Harding Park Dargaville Open: Wed, Fri, & weekends 10-30am - 3.30pm The Kumara Box Warren Suckling: 09 439 7018 Buy fresh produce at Riverside Produce Market Every Thursday 2.30pm until 5.30pm Dormavilla Kauri Clock Factory 134 Colville Rd SH 12 Watch a craftsman working with Kauri timber. Free Tours 094397373 094390007 Funky Fish Trounson Kauri Park Walk through Trounson Kauri Park A Mainland Island Trounson Park Rd Kaihu Friday Nights in the Garage 5.30 till 8.30 Friday 7 September Dan Collett Friday 14 September Jo Little & Jarrod Smith Friday 21 September Little John Brothers
Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses. Elizabeth Taylor New Zealand History This Week. 15 - 22 September 19 September 1893 Women’s suffrage day The Governor, Lord Glasgow, signed a new Electoral Act into law. As a result of this landmark legislation, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant all women the right to vote in parliamentary elections. The passing of the Electoral Act was the culmination of years of agitation by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and other organisations. As part of this campaign, a series of massive petitions − including one earlier in 1893 signed by almost one in four adult women in New Zealand − were presented to Parliament. In most other democracies – notably Britain and the United States – women did not win the right to vote until after the First World War. New Zealand’s world leadership in women’s suffrage became a central part of our image as a trailblazing ‘social laboratory’. Even so, New Zealand women still had a long way to go to achieve political equality. They would not gain the right to stand for Parliament until 1919, and the first female MP (Elizabeth McCombs) was not elected until 1933 – 40 years after the introduction of women’s suffrage. The number of female MPs did not reach double figures until the mid- 1980s, and at about 30% of MPs women remain under-represented in Parliament. Image: ‘The summit at last’, suffrage cartoon 22 September 1906 Domestic workers call for 68-hour week At a meeting held in Wellington, Marianne Tasker attempted to establish a domestic workers’ union. Central to its demands was the call for a 68-hour working week. From the late 1880s to the 1930s domestic service was the single largest category of paid employment for women. ‘Domestics’ could be found in more than 15,000 dwellings around the country. A common complaint was that ‘good help was hard to find’. The idea of domestic service had never sat well with the ‘free-born colonial young woman’. This was hardly surprising, given the working conditions most domestics endured: a 16-hour day, 6½ days a week, and all for low wages. An 1896 attempt to legislate for domestics to have a half-day off each week was defeated. Edward Tregear, the head of the fledgling Department of Labour, recognised that the ideals of domestic service were ‘feudal and medieval’. However, he was also quick to point out that having too many girls working in factories would be ‘fatal to our future domestic comfort’. The labour reforms of the Liberal government had by the late 1890s earned New Zealand a reputation as a ‘working man’s paradise’. A 68-hour working week hardly seemed an unreasonable demand. New Zealanders had after all been celebrating Labour Day and the struggle for an eight-hour working day since 1890. Tasker and her supporters wanted to use the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act to force employers to comply with their demands. Tasker believed a union would improve working conditions and help attract more young women into domestic service. This would address a common complaint of employers. Seeing no benefit from a unionised workforce, employers formed their own organisation to confront the prospective union. Public figures also waded into the issue. The wife of Wellington’s mayor complained that a
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