First Woman Mayor
Sir, —In your account of the reception to Mrs. McCombs, M.P., at the Pioneer Club the statement is made: “Miss Mary Richmond, the first woman to sit on a public body in New Zealand, spoke briefly.” Away back in the late ’eighties or early ’nineties a woman whose name I forget was elected to the Onehunga Borough Council. Speaking from memory, I am not sure if it was as a councillor or mayoress she was elected, but I believe it was as mayoress. Perhaps someone with a better memory than I have may be able to supply details.—l am, etc., ' INTERESTED.
Wanganui, September 27. ["lnterested” is correct in pointing out that Miss Richmond was not the first woman to sit on a public body in New Zealand. Mrs. M. Yates, described at the time as “the only lady mayor in the British Empire,’’ was the eighth Mayor of Onehunga, proclaimed a borough in 1877.]
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 4, 29 September 1933, Page 13
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