Elizabeth Yates (mayor)

"...in a better sanitary condition than any in the North Island."

"I think women are quite as well able to legislate as men..."

"I am most anxious to make a change in the way business is carried on. There is in both borough councils and in Parliament too, a great deal too much talk...Men often get up and talk at these meetings just to waste time..."

"No woman, however degraded, but should have women to look after them."

"Most emphatically I am not a prohibitionist."