Mary Dreaver
Mary Manson Dreaver MBE (née Bain, 31 March 1887 – 19 July 1961) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
Biography
| Parliament of New Zealand | ||||
| Years | Term | Electorate | Party | |
| 1941–1943 | 26th | Waitemata | Labour | |
She was born in Dunedin, the oldest of 13 children of Alexander Manson Bain and Hanna Kiely. She married Andrew James Dreaver in 1911.
She was a minister and president of the National Spiritualist Church of New Zealand, a journalist as Maorilander in the New Zealand Woman's Weekly, and a broadcaster on Radio 1ZB as Aunt Maisy.[1] In 1934 she became the first woman minister appointed by the church in New Zealand.[2]
Dreaver sought selection by the Labour Party for the 1930 by-election in the Parnell electorate, but was beaten by Thomas Bloodworth.[3][4]
In 1931 she was elected to the Auckland Hospital Board as a Labour candidate. [5] [6] [7] In 1933 a visit by her to the hospital kitchen and claims of long hours and "sweated labour" there aroused controversy on the board.[8]
In the 1938 election she stood for Labour in Remuera, coming second.
In 1941 she won the Waitemata electorate when a by-election was held after the death of the previous Labour Party MP, Jack Lyon.[9] She was defeated in the next (1943) general election, by the National Party candidate, Henry Thorne Morton.[10]
She was the third woman to be elected to Parliament after Elizabeth McCombs and Catherine Stewart. She also was on several Auckland local bodies.[1]
She and Mary Anderson were the first two women appointed to the Legislative Council. They were appointed by the First Labour Government in 1946 (after a law change in 1941 to make women eligible); and they served to 1950 when the Legislative Council was abolished.[11]
In the 1946 New Year Honours, Dreaver was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services in connection with recruiting for the Women's Land Army.[12]
She died in Auckland on 19 July 1961. She was survived by her husband (by only three months), three daughters and two sons.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Wilson 1985, pp. 193, 213.
- ↑ Wilson 1985, pp. 193, 221.
- ↑ Wilson 1985, p. 152.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 37410. p. 161. 1 January 1946. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
References
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
| New Zealand Parliament | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Waitemata 1941–1943 |
Succeeded by Henry Thorne Morton |
- Use dmy dates from August 2014
- Use New Zealand English from August 2014
- All Wikipedia articles written in New Zealand English
- Pages with broken file links
- 1887 births
- 1961 deaths
- New Zealand Labour Party MPs
- Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
- Members of the New Zealand Legislative Council
- New Zealand journalists
- New Zealand broadcasters
- Local political office-holders in New Zealand
- New Zealand women in politics
- New Zealand Labour Party MLCs
- New Zealand MPs for Auckland electorates
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- People from Dunedin
- Unsuccessful candidates in the New Zealand general election, 1943
- Unsuccessful candidates in the New Zealand general election, 1938
- New Zealand politicians
