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.
Sheila Weight | |
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 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 |
Biography
editWeight 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
edit- ^ "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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