Why is Kate Sheppard on the NZ ten dollar note??
Firstly What did Kate Sheppard do and what was she? Here’s three ways!
1.She was the most prominent leader of New Zealand’s women’s suffrage movement.
2.She helped organize the movement by distributing pamphlets, holding meetings, writing letters to the press, and giving public speeches.
3.Her efforts were instrumental in New Zealand becoming the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote in 1893.
Now we get into the bit in why is she on the ten dollar not and not me ? Nah just kidding!!
Kate Sheppard was the leading light of the New Zealand women’s suffrage movement. In recent years her contribution to New Zealand’s identity has been acknowledged on the $10 note and a commemorative stamp.