Rona Stevenson
| Parliament of New Zealand | ||||
| Years | Term | Electorate | Party | |
| 1963–1966 | 34th | Taupo | National | |
| 1966–1969 | 35th | Taupo | National | |
| 1969–1972 | 36th | Taupo | National | |
Rona Miriel Stevenson MBE (13 February 1911 – 4 September 1988) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.
Born in Wellington in 1911, she served on the executives of the Women's Division of Federated Farmers, the YWCA and the Presbyterian Church.[1]
She represented the Taupo electorate from 1963 to 1972, when she retired.[2] In the 1966 election, she narrowly beat (by 258 votes) Labour's Barry Gustafson.[3]
Stevenson was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to the community in the 1976 Queen's Birthday Honours.[4] She died on 4 September 1988,[5] and her ashes were buried at Taupo Public Cemetery.[6]
Notes
- ↑ Gustafson 1986, p. 344.
- ↑ Wilson 1985, p. 236.
- ↑ Gustafson 1986, p. 91.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 46921. p. 8057. 4 June 1976. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- ↑ "OBITUARY—MRS RONA STEVENSON". New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ↑ "Deceased details". Taupō District Council. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
References
- Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.
- Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 (4 ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
- Women in Parliamentary Life 1970–1990: Hocken Lecture 1993 by Marilyn Waring, page 35 (Hocken Library, University of Otago, 1994) ISBN 0-902041-61-4