Former Women’s Tennis Champion Dies
(New Zealand Press Association)
AUCKLAND, Nov. 2. Miss Marjorie Jessie Macfarlane, who died in Auckland on Saturday, aged 67. was New Zealand women’s tennis champion in 1929. Auckland champion eight times between 1921 and 1933, and Remuera club champion every year from 1921 to 1937 and again in 1940. She won the national women’s doubles in 1920 (with Mrs Hodges) and in 1921 (with Mrs Melody), and the mixed doubles in 1920 (with E. W. Griffiths), 1924 (with H. L. Robson) and 1933 (with C. E. Malfroy).
She won the Auckland women’s doubles title three times—in 1921 (with Miss Paton), 1928 (with Mrs Marshall) and 1932 (with her sister, Mario, now Mrs M. G. H. Nott) and the mixed
doubles five times—in 1922 and 1926 (with H. L. Robson), 1931-32 and 1935 (with N. G. Sturt).
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30588, 3 November 1964, Page 2
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