Pearl Dawson

Pearl Howard Dawson BEM (29 April 1887 – 16 May 1987) was a New Zealand veterinarian, hockey and cricket player, and sports administrator.

[1] The Auckland Hockey Association was male-dominated which caused the women to break away and organise their own sports grounds in Remuera in 1928.

[2] In the 1968 Queen's Birthday Honours, Dawson was awarded the British Empire Medal, for services to women's sport in Auckland, particularly hockey and cricket.

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Group of women hockey players, 1939