May 31, 2018
Runway jaunt to celebrate suffrage
PORIRUA DEPUTY MAYOR IZZY FORD
Porirua City is looking for 25 wahine who are making a difference in the city.
Deputy mayor Izzy Ford says it's a way to mark 125 years since New Zealand women won the right to vote.
She says the city has produced many influential wahine, and it has a good record of electing women – consistently abiout half of local body representatives are woemnb, and it has produced five Maori or Pasifika deputy mayors.
"We've got so many different women who are in the academic and professional community, and even just the nans who are there to help out with the mokopuna, those are the women we really want to see nominations for because quite often we are acknowledging the academics, the professionals, the ones in politics and what not, but these other women, the backbones of our community, we want to see those women celebrated as well," Ms Ford says.
The selected wahine will be given VIP passes to attend the Miromoda Runway fashion Show at Pataka Art + Museum on June 30.
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