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Maori Womens Welfare League

Events In History

25 September 1951

Eighty-seven delegates attended the first day of the inaugural conference of the Māori Women’s Welfare League in Wellington. Dame Whina Cooper was appointed as president.

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From pre-European times to the present, Māori women's organising has been centred on the whānau and its well-being. Read the full Women Together Theme

Te Rōpū Wāhine Māori Toko i te Ora Māori Women's Welfare League

The Māori Women's Welfare League (MWWL) was established to draw together Māori women on a national basis, to address their own and their families' needs.  Read the full Women Together Essay

Some of the delegates at the Maori Women's Welfare League conference in the Wellington Town Hall, April 1953