Ada Wells was a school teacher, notably at St. Albans. She was the right-hand woman of Kate Sheppard in the Women’s Christian Temperance Union struggle for women to get the vote in parliamentary elections and, later, was the first woman on the Christchurch City Council, 1917-1919.
- Women first voted in the general election, 28 November 1893
- Ada Wells – biography
- Women in the Council Chamber
