Ada Wells
Wells worked as a student-teacher and attended Canterbury College.  In the 1880s she became active in the women's suffrage movement.  In 1892 she formed the Canterbury Women's Institute. She also helped form the National Council of Women of New Zealand.  In 1917 she was the first woman to work on the Christchurch City Council. The Ministry for Culture and Heritage now offers an Ada Wells Memorial Prize for Undergraduate Students.