KATE SHEPPARD MEMORIAL
A long term impact of women’s suffrage is the way in which it’s honoured to this day. There is a Kate Sheppard memorial in a landscaped area beside the Avon River of Oxford Terrace (an area known as the Kate Sheppard National Memorial Reserve). It is the only New Zealand monument “depicting the fight for women’s suffrage.” (32) The memorial is also the only national memorial in Christchurch. It also contains a time capsule that contains a record of the donors and material;relevant to women’s lives in 1993. It was unveiled by Dame Catherine Tizard, Governor General of New Zealand, on September 19,1993. The memorial shows how the efforts of women in the 19th century to gain enfranchisement were appreciated and celebrated.