NEW ZEALAND DELEGATE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26040, 2 January 1946, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND DELEGATE

UNITED NATIONS ASSEMBLY New Zealand will have a woman delegate at the general assembly of the United Nations Organisation in London this month. She is Miss Jean McKenzie, senior woman diplomatic officer in the Department of External Affairs, who lias been official secretary to the High Commissioner for New Zealand in Canberra. Miss McKenzie, who left with the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser’s party, for London on December 18, is stated to be the first woman to held the post of first secretary to the Government representative of a British country. Miss McKenzie, who was born in Southland and educated in Invercargill, joined the Government service as a member of the Public Works Department. In 1926 she was one of the staff selected to institute the Prime Minister's Department. She w.as a member of the New Zealand delegation at the Ottawa Conference in 1982, and after being in the New Zealand Trade Commissioner’s office m Toronto, was transferred to London, joining the staff of the High Commissioner’s office. In 1941, after acting as private secretary to the Prime Minister, M: Fraser, during bis visit to Britain, Miss McKenzie was sent to Washington as second secretary and helped to establish the New Zealand Legation there. From Washington she went to her present position in Canberra.