Mary Dreaver
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The Honourable Mary Dreaver MBE |
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| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Waitemata |
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In office 19 July 1941 – 25 September 1943 |
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| Preceded by | Jack Lyon |
| Succeeded by | Henry Thorne Morton |
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In office 31 January 1946 – 31 December 1950 |
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| Appointed by | Peter Fraser |
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Mary Manson Bain 31 March 1887 Dunedin, New Zealand |
| Died | 19 July 1961 (aged 74) Auckland, New Zealand |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Andrew James Dreaver (m. 1911) |
| Children | 5 |
| Profession | Journalist |
Mary Manson Dreaver MBE (née Bain, 31 March 1887 – 19 July 1961) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
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.
Dreaver sought selection by the Labour Party for the 1930 by-election in the Parnell electorate, but was beaten by Thomas Bloodworth.
In 1931 she was elected to the Auckland Hospital Board as a Labour candidate. In 1933 a visit by her to the hospital kitchen and claims of long hours and "sweated labour" there aroused controversy on the board.
In the 1938 election she stood for Labour in Remuera, 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.
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