Rona Stevenson

Parliament of New Zealand
Years Term Electorate Party
19631966 34th Taupo National
19661969 35th Taupo National
19691972 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

  1. Gustafson 1986, p. 344.
  2. Wilson 1985, p. 236.
  3. Gustafson 1986, p. 91.
  4. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 46921. p. 8057. 4 June 1976. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  5. "OBITUARY—MRS RONA STEVENSON". New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  6. "Deceased details". Taupō District Council. Retrieved 17 January 2015.

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