Helen Wilson (writer)

Helen Mary Wilson OBE (née Ostler; 4 May 1869 – 16 April 1957) was a New Zealand teacher, farmer, community leader and writer.

[1] Wilson was active in the Women's Division of the Farmer's Union and one of the early Dominion presidents.

She founded the Piopio branch of the organisation in 1927,[2] and in the 1937 Coronation Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition of her service as Dominion president of the Women's Division.

[5] Wilson spent several years in the North Island town of Levin with her mother, prominent businesswoman and women's suffrage campaigner Emma Ostler.

[6] She lived for most of her adult life in Piopio in the Waitomo district of the North Island.