Wilhelmina Magdalene Stuart

Wilhelmina Magdalene Stuart (9 August 1895 – 3 July 1985) was a New Zealand telegraphist.

Life Stuart was born in Dunedin, to Abraham Stuart, a typesetter, and Wilhelmina (née Bohning), a seamstress.

Stuart joined the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department in 1916, in the midst of World War I. Stuart and other women were trained as telegraph operators to replace the men off at war. In 1917, Stuart was given a permanent job at the Post and Telegraph Department's Telegraph Office in Dunedin.