Establishment of Kotahitanga o Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Meri Te Tai Mangakahia campaigned for women’s suffrage. The first woman to address the Kotahitanga Parliament (in May 1893), she noted that Māori women were landowners, and entitled to political representation.[i]
Footnotes
[i] go to main content Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris, Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2014, p. 329.