Today’s DOTD - Drink Of The Day - is a Kiwi Bellini inspired by the first time women voted…In New Zealand!
Women’s suffrage was an important political issue in the late-nineteenth-century New Zealand. In early colonial New Zealand, as in other European societies, women were excluded from any involvement in politics. Public opinion began to change in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and after years of effort by women’s suffrage campaigners, led by Kate Sheppard, New Zealand became the first nation in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
The Electoral Bill granting women the franchise was given Royal Assent by Governor Lord Glasgow on 19 September 1893. Women voted for the first time in the election held on 28 November 1893 (elections for the Māori electorates were held on 20 December). Also in 1893, Elizabeth Yates became Mayor of Onehunga, the first time such a post had been held by a woman anywhere in the British Empire.
And if you’re looking for the SECOND Drink Of the Day, we make with Jo Carducci? It’s over here - click through and read that one too!
Ingredients
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