Margaret Pawson

Margaret Pawson (1940 to 1997), born Elizabeth Margaret Elliott, was a New Zealand netball player who played one Test match for the New Zealand team on its 1960 tour of Australia. She played for the Hastings High School Old Girls' club and was a Hastings and Hawke's Bay provincial representative from 1956. In 1959 she was named in the North Island team for the annual inter-island match, which the North Island won 29 to 28. Selected as a goal keeper for the 1960 tour, she played in the third Test, in Sydney, which Australia won 46 to 45 to take the series 2 to 1. She continued with Hawke's Bay and was picked for the North Island team a second time after the 1962 national championships. She worked as a typist and later married Gary Pawson.