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Mary Manson Dreaver (née Bain, 31 March 1887 – 19 July 1961) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. ==Biography== She was born in Dunedin, the oldest of 13 children of Alexander Manson Bain and Hanna Kiely. She married Andrew James Dreaver in 1911. She was a minister and president of the National Spiritualist Church of New Zealand, a journalist as ''Maorilander'' in the ''New Zealand Woman's Weekly'', and a broadcaster on Radio 1ZB as ''Aunt Maisy''. In 1934 she became the first woman minister appointed by the church in New Zealand.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Woman minister, Mrs M Dreaver )〕 Dreaver sought selection by the Labour Party for the in the electorate, but was beaten by Thomas Bloodworth. In 1931 she was elected to the Auckland Hospital Board as a Labour candidate. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Municipal elections: Labour Party candidates )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Hospital Board )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Hospital Board: Committees approved )〕 In 1933 a visit by her to the hospital kitchen and claims of long hours and "sweated labour" there aroused controversy on the board.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Hospital Kitchen: Board members action )〕 In the she stood for Labour in , coming second. In 1941 she won the Waitemata electorate when a by-election was held after the death of the previous Labour Party MP, Jack Lyon. She was defeated in the next (1943) general election, by the National Party candidate, Henry Thorne Morton. She was the third woman to be elected to Parliament after Elizabeth McCombs and Catherine Stewart. She also was on several Auckland local bodies.〔 She and Mary Anderson were the first two women appointed to the Legislative Council. They were appointed by the First Labour Government in 1946 (after a law change in 1941 to make women eligible); and they served to 1950 when the Legislative Council was abolished. In the 1946 New Year Honours, Dreaver was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services in connection with recruiting for the Women's Land Army. She died in Auckland on 19 July 1961. She was survived by her husband (by only three months), three daughters and two sons.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Dreaver」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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