Sheila Weight
Sheila Weight | |
|---|---|
 Weight serving in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force circa 1940–1941 | |
| Birth name | Sheila Mary Weeks |
| Born | 10 January 1922 |
| Died | 15 July 2011 (aged 89) |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service/ | Women's Auxiliary Air Force |
| Spouse(s) | Peter Everard Weight |
| Children | 6 |
Sheila Mary Weight MNZM JP (née Weeks; 10 January 1922 – 15 July 2011) was a New Zealand local-body politician. She was the first woman to service as president of the Auckland Institute and Museum Trust Board.
Biography
Weight was born Sheila Mary Weeks in London, England, on 10 January 1922,[1][2] and served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II.[3] She emigrated to New Zealand in 1946,[4] and subsequently married Peter Everard Weight.[5] The couple went on to have six children.[5][6]
Later in life, Sheila Weight served as a councillor on the One Tree Hill Borough Council and represented the borough on the Trust Board of the Auckland Institute and Museum. From 1982, she also served as vice-president of the institute,[7] becoming the president in 1986. She was the first woman to be elected to either position.[8] She was appointed to be a justice of the peace in 1985.[9]
In the 1999 New Year Honours, Weight was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the community.[10][11] In the same year, Weight received an Auckland Museum Medal, becoming a Companion of Auckland War Memorial Museum.[12]
Weight died on 15 July 2011.[6] Her husband, Peter, died in 2013.[5]
References
- ^ "Death search: registration number 2011/16839". Births, deaths & marriages online. Department of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
- ^ "Sheila M Weeks in the England & Wales, civil registration birth index, 1916–2007". General Register Office, United Kingdom. Retrieved 7 August 2022 – via Ancestry.com.
- ^ "Sheila Weight in uniform. Women's Auxilliary Air Force". Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- ^ "New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, passenger lists, 1839–1973: Wellington, 1946". FamilySearch. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
- ^ a b c "Peter Weight obituary". The New Zealand Herald. 16 March 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
- ^ a b "Sheila Weight obituary (2011)". The New Zealand Herald. 16 July 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- ^ "Auckland War Memorial Museum News Number Fourteen" (PDF). Museum Quarterly. 14. Auckland: Auckland War Memorial Museum. June 1983. ISSN 0111-2252. Wikidata Q115749472.
- ^ "Auckland War Memorial Museum News Number 26" (PDF). Museum Quarterly. 26. Auckland: Auckland War Memorial Museum. 1 July 1986. ISSN 0111-2252. Wikidata Q115749483.
- ^ "Justices of the peace appointed" (PDF). New Zealand Gazette. No. 110. 13 June 1985. pp. 2519–2520. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
- ^ "Sheila Weight". Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- ^ "New Year honours list 1999". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 1998. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
- ^ "Museum Medals". Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
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