Rona Stevenson

Rona Miriel Stevenson MBE (13 February 1911 – 4 September 1988) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

Born in Wellington in 1911, she served on the executives of the Women's Division of Federated Farmers, the YWCA and the Presbyterian Church.

She represented the Taupo electorate from 1963 to 1972, when she retired. In the 1966 election, she narrowly beat (by 258 votes) Labour's Barry Gustafson.

Stevenson was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to the community in the 1976 Queen's Birthday Honours. She died on 4 September 1988, and her ashes were buried at Taupo Public Cemetery.

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