Muriel Boswell

Muriel Boswell (1915 to 2003), born Muriel Frances Howe in Petone, was a New Zealand netball player who took part in the first ever Test between New Zealand and Australia. She played representative netball for Wellington from 1933, first as a forward and later at centre, and in 1938 was described as brilliant in quick interception. That year she was chosen for the New Zealand team that travelled to Australia for the interstate tournament in Melbourne, where the matches were played on grass courts under Australian rules. She played in the single Test in Melbourne on 20 August 1938, which New Zealand lost 11 to 40. She married David Boswell in Tonga in 1944, lived for many years in Hawke's Bay, and died in Whanganui aged 88.