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

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.

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