Rona Stevenson

New Zealand Parliament
Years	Term	Electorate
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.
^ "No. 46921". The London Gazette (invalid |supp= (help)). 4 June 1976.
^ "OBITUARY—MRS RONA STEVENSON". New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
^ "Deceased details". Taupō District Council. Retrieved 17 January 2015.

Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 (4 ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
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

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