MORISON, HARRIET RUSSELL, a native of Ireland, came to New Zealand as a child with her parents, who settled in Dunedin. She entered business life, but her sympathies were with the women workers, and when the sweating revelations occurred in the eighties, she ardently adopted their cause. She was elected vice-president of the New Zealand tailoresses union in 1889. From 1890 to 1896, as secretary of the union, she improved conditions in Auckland as well as Dunedin. Miss Morison was for 44 years official visitor to Seacliff mental hospital. In 1906 she was appointed New Zealand's first woman inspector of factories, and from 1908 to 1921 she was officer in charge of the women's employment bureau of the Labour department, at Auckland. She died at New Lynn on 19 Aug 1925.

Otago Daily Times, 21 Aug 1925.

Reference: Volume 2, page 54

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