Years | Term | Electorate | Party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1963–1966 | 34th | Taupo | National | ||
1966–1969 | 35th | Taupo | National | ||
1969–1972 | 36th | Taupo | National |
Rona Miriel Stevenson MBE JP (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] The Taupo seat was a marginal one and the women's section of the National Party raised a large sum of money to ensure her re-election.[4] Also, in 1966 she also called for the names of women in 'so-called rape cases' to have their names published on the grounds that they may have been provocative, a move that may not have gained her support from women voters.[4]
Stevenson was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the community, in the 1976 Queen's Birthday Honours.[5] She died on 4 September 1988, and her ashes were buried at Taupo Public Cemetery.[6]