Nellie Coad
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Nellie Euphemia Coad was a New Zealand teacher, community leader, women's advocate and writer. She was an early advocate for educational and career opportunities for women, and for many years led and
Coad, photographed in her role as a teacher at Wellington Girls' College, c. 1936
The National Council of Women of New Zealand was established in 1896, three years after women in New Zealand won the right to the vote, as an umbrella organisation uniting a number of different women'
Nellie Coad
…member of the University Entrance Board and was vice-president of the New Zealand Secondary Schools' Association. She served as vice-president of the National Council of Women of New Zealand in 1921–22 and as president of the Council's Wellington branch in 1922–23. She was the founding president of the New Zealand Women Writers' and Artists…
National Council of Women at the inaugural meeting in Christchurch in April 1896
Ada Wells addresses a meeting of the NCWNZ, 1901