Flora McMillan Forde OBE (9 June 1883 – 13 December 1958) was a New Zealand political activist, feminist and welfare worker.
She married a railway clerk, Michael Joseph Forde, on 5 November 1902 and they had two daughters and a son.
Michael left his job in July 1903 to become a journalist and eventually became the chief reporter for the Southland Times.
[1] Forde and her husband moved to Wellington in 1917 where Michael began working in the railway industry again until he retired in 1954.
She joined the New Zealand Society for the Protection of Women and Children in the 1930s where she served as treasurer for 17 years and later President of the Wellington branch and served as the executive of the Southland War Funds Association during World War II.