New Zealand’s First Woman Cabinet Minister – 14th May 1947
On 14th May 1947, Mabel Bowden Howard became not only New Zealand’s first woman Cabinet Minister but the first in the Commonwealth excluding Britain. She was the Minister of Health and Children’s Welfare. Mabel was born on 18th April 1894 in Bowden, Australia. After the death of her mother at the age of nine, the …
