Home and Country . . . Women s Institute Awamoa Alma and South Hill treasurer and North Otago Federation secretary Melba Jordan sits before her winning cross-stitch work Blue Boy. PHOTO: RUBY HEYWARD
Women’s Institutes across New Zealand will celebrate the establishment’s 100-year anniversary this weekend, and the organisation’s North Otago Federation will be no different.
On Sunday, 40 Women’s Institute groups will honour Anna Elizabeth Jerome Spencer, who founded New Zealand’s first Women’s Institute in 1921.
As part of the celebrations, a sculpture of Miss Jerome Spencer will be unveiled in Napier, where the institute’s first meeting was held.
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