Mary Manson Dreaver MBE (née Bain, 31 March 1887 – 19 July 1961) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. She was the third woman to sit in the...
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elected at a general election and not by widow's succession), Mary Dreaver (1941), Mary Grigg (1942), Mabel Howard (1943), Hilda Ross (1945), Iriaka Rātana...
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1933 by-election. She was followed by Catherine Stewart (1938), Mary Dreaver (1941), Mary Grigg (1942), Mabel Howard (1943), and Hilda Ross (1945). Grigg...
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Waitaki David Campbell Kidd 821 John S. Adams Waitemata Mary Dreaver Henry Thorne Morton 321 Mary Dreaver Waitomo Walter Broadfoot 1,881 Ben Waters Wallace...
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councillors before 1941, and only five were appointed. Two, Mary Anderson and Mary Dreaver, were appointed in 1946 by the First Labour Government. In 1950...
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Parliament. Mary Dreaver of the Labour Party won the by-election; she was the third woman elected to the House of Representatives. Mary Dreaver was chosen...
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elected to Parliament after Elizabeth McCombs, Catherine Stewart and Mary Dreaver, and the first woman not from the Labour Party to be elected. Lady Polson...
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Court in 1943. Mary Anderson became the first woman to sit on a Magistrate's Court Bench in 1943 and then in 1946 she and Mary Dreaver, a former Member...
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appointed to the Legislative Council. The first two women, Mary Anderson and Mary Dreaver, were appointed in 1946 by the First Labour Government. Three...
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Retrieved 6 November 2013. Gustafson 1986, p. 345. Laracy, Hugh. "Dreaver, Mary Manson". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and...
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1950 were Ethel Gould and Agnes Weston. Only two other women, Mary Anderson and Mary Dreaver, had ever been appointed to the Council (by Labour, in 1946)...
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Legislative Council in 1941, and two were appointed in 1946, Mary Anderson and Mary Dreaver. Women were allowed to become members of the police force (1938)...
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novelist. Category:1961 births 25 June: Jack Lamason, cricketer. 19 July: Mary Dreaver, politician. 5 August: Sidney Holland, 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand...
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oversaw the introduction of Traffic lights to Auckland. In 1956 Curran and Mary Dreaver, who were both committee chairs on the 1953-56 council ignored a local...
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of Health from 1965 until his death in 1972. His maternal grandmother Mary Dreaver was the first female Member of Parliament from Auckland (and the third...
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Hospital Board. The only successful Labour candidate for the council was Mary Dreaver, with the Citizens & Ratepayers ticket winning all other council seats...
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the third woman to the New Zealand House of Representatives, Labour's Mary Dreaver. His widow Alison considered but, after receiving medical advice, opted...
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Party. She was then secretary of the branch from 1918 to 1956. With Mary Dreaver she was appointed to the council on 31 January 1946 by the First Labour...
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New Zealand Parliament Preceded by Mary Dreaver Member of Parliament for Waitemata 1943–1946 Vacant Constituency abolished, recreated in 1954 Title next...
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in turn succeeded by her son Terry McCombs), the first woman National MP Mary Grigg, and the first woman Māori MP Iriaka Rātana; all of whom took over...
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Finlay 5,815 29.99 Independent John Lundon 4,958 25.57 +6.67 Labour Mary Dreaver 4,840 24.96 Labour Alice Cassie 4,826 24.89 Independent William Thompson...
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succession 1946: Two women appointed to the Legislative Council; Mary Anderson and Mary Dreaver. 1947: Mabel Howard, who was elected to Parliament in 1943 becomes...
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Cora Louisa Burrell and Ethel Gould. Only two other women, Mary Anderson and Mary Dreaver, had ever been appointed to the council (in 1946). Weston was...
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Lyon Waitemata 15 February 1898 1935 26 May 1941 43 Killed in action Mary Dreaver (1941 Waitemata by-election) Gordon Hultquist Bay of Plenty 1904 1935...
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Cora Louisa Burrell and Agnes Weston. Only two other women, Mary Anderson and Mary Dreaver, had ever been appointed to the council (in 1946). In the 1946...
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Waitaki David Campbell Kidd 821 John S. Adams Waitemata Mary Dreaver Henry Thorne Morton 321 Mary Dreaver Waitomo Walter Broadfoot 1,881 Ben Waters Wallace...
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interests of women, children and those in need. In 1941, she was joined by Mary Dreaver, also of the Labour party, bringing the total of female MPs to two. Stewart...
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1931 election 1935 election Jack Lyon 1938 election 1941 by-election Mary Dreaver 1943 election Henry Morton (electorate abolished 1946–1954, see North...
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Retrieved 6 November 2013. Gustafson 1986, p. 345. Laracy, Hugh. "Dreaver, Mary Manson". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and...
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89 11.46 United Independents Dove-Myer Robinson 15,175 40.48 Labour Mary Dreaver 14,744 39.33 Labour Bill Butler 14,682 39.16 −1.19 Citizens & Ratepayers...
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