Canterbury Women's Institute

[2] The group then created four departments with the following conveners: The committees met to raise issues to research, write papers to read to each other, hold debates on important social and political questions, lead adult education classes, and publish open letters when resolutions were voted on successfully.

[1] With Annie E. Hookham as chair, the CWI held a conference in November which included representatives from the Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand, Progressive Liberal Association, Freethought Association, Teachers' Institute, Church of England Temperance Society, Society for Social Ethics, Tailoresses' Union, Knights of Labour, New Zealand Workers' Union, Rational Dress Association, and the Alalanta Cycling Club.

"[10] The meetings of "the Committee of the Canterbury Women's Institute" were at first held at the Young Men's Christian Association[3] then at the Chancery Lane Hall[11] in Christchurch.

[13] Much of the CWI's work in the following years was to organise campaigns to help elect women to local boards and political office.

By November 1921, according to the minutes of the National Council of Women Christchurch Branch, the few remaining members of the CWI agreed they would go into "recess indefinitely.