OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23330, 16 May 1941, Page 10

OBITUARY

MRS W. J. POLSON (P.S.S.) WELLINGTON, May 15. The death has occurred of Mrs Florence Ada Mary Lamb Poison, wife of Mr W. J. Poison, M.P. for Stratford. She was born in Melbourne in 1879, and was the fifth and youngest daughter of Alfred and Martha Wilspn, of that city. Educated first at the Presbyterian Women’s CollSge there, and at the Academy in Paris, Miss Wilson, as she then was, spent a number of years living on the Continent, during which time she acquired an intimate knowledge of the French and German languages. She travelled extensively and lived in South Africa for two years before returning to Australia. She was married in Melbourne in 1910, and came to Manurewa, Fordell. In 1928 her husband won the Stratford seat, after which she divided her time between the two places of residence. Mrs Poison founded the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union, and did a vast amount of work for it. She was predeceased by her. sisters, -Mesdames Henry Butler and Francis Harman, both of Melbourne, and her son, Mr Donald Gunn (“Jim”) Poison, who died in 1927. She is survived by her husband, her daughter, Mrs James Cranstone, and two sons, Messrs John and Robin Poison, and also by her sisters, Mesdames I. M, Moss and Edward Chase* both of Melbourne.