Blyth, Doris, 1899-1991 (Person)

Doris Blyth, born in Temuka in 1899, arrived in Tauranga in 1924. Taught at the Tauranga District High School. Foundation member of the Hairini and Welcome Bay Women's Institutes. Member of the Te Teko branch of the Women's Division of Federated Farmers. Member of the Lyceum Club and represented this club to the National Council of Women in the 1950s. First President of the Tauranga Housewives' Association, regular radio broadcaster through Rotorua's 1YZ under the banner of the Housewives' Association, the Tauranga branch of the National Council of Women and the Consumer Association.