Patricia Laura Te Waikapoata Hond (née Mathieson; 31 March 1927 – 18 November 1989) was a New Zealand tribal leader, teacher, soldier, policewoman and community worker.
[1] Training as a teacher in Auckland, Mathieson began teaching in a number of schools; in Ōhura, in Tokomaru Bay, and St Joseph's Māori Girls' College in Taradale, Napier.
[1] Moving to New Plymouth in 1984, Hond joined a prison reform committee and worked as a community officer for the Department of Māori Affairs.
[1] Due to heart problems, possibly contributed to by 40 years of smoking cigarettes, Hond died on 18 November 1989 in New Plymouth, being survived by her husband and remaining five children.
[1] On 24 May 1958, Mathieson married Jeffrey "Jeff" Hond, a Royal New Zealand Air Force warrant officer in Wellington.