OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 21784, 28 July 1934, Page 21

OBITUARY

MRS K. W. LGVEUjSMITH The death occurred at “ Alidway,” Upper ilieenrton, last week of Airs Katherine Wilson Lovell-Smith, a. pioneer worker for the enfranchisement of women in New Zealand. Airs Lovell-Smith arrived in New Zealand in ‘ the early ’seventies with her mother, Airs Alalcolm, and other members of the family. She married Air Walter Allen Sheppard and had one sou, Douglas, who died in Glasgow in 1910. As franchise superintendent of the Christchurch branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union she organised the campaign which preceded the passing of the Act of September, 1893. Airs Sheppard edited the first women’s paper in New Zealand—the ‘ White Ilibbon ’■—-the official organ of tlie Women’s Christian Temperance Union. In 1896, at the request of Lady Aberdeen, she formed the National Council of Women of New Zealand, in which for very many years she took a leading part. With advancing years she Vetired from active participation, but followed with keen interest the progress of women’s affairs throughout the world. Air Sheppard died at -Bath, England, in 1915, and later she married Atr W. S. Lovell-Smith, w'ho died in 1929.