The Statue of Margaret Cruickshank is located in Seddon Square, in the small rural town of Waimate, New Zealand.

[1] It honours the life of Margaret Cruickshank, a local doctor who died in the influenza pandemic of 1918, and was the first monument erected in New Zealand to a woman other than Queen Victoria.

[3] Trethewey worked from photographs and created a plaster cast which was displayed in a shop window in the town to enable locals to comment on it.

[4] The completed statue measures 3.3 metres tall, and depicts Cruickshank in academic robes, holding a Bible in her left hand.

[1][3] The speakers at the ceremony included Cruickshank's former classmate Dr Emily Siedeberg, representing the New Zealand Medical Women's Association, the Member of Parliament for Waitaki, John Bitchener, and the chair of the Waimate County Council, Thomas Lawson Hart.