Background
Zina Beatrice Selwyn Hammond was born on 30 August 1868 at Brighton, Victoria, the daughter of Robert K. Hammond and his wife Jessie Duncan (née Grant). In 1875 her father Robert K. Hammond died leaving her mother a widow of ten children.
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Zina Cumbrae-Stewart
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After the crash Zina returned to Mrs R. Sadleir Forster"s Ladies School, Street Kilda, where she was educated, to teach drawing.
Career
Up until the bank crash of 1893 Zina had a lively social life in the Brighton society. She helped found the Queensland Social Service League in 1931 to cope with problems related to the Depression. Other societies she was involved with included the Mothercraft Association, the Traveller"s Aid Society and the Shakespeare Society.
Zina Cumbrae-Stewart was the first woman to speak from the platform of the Brisbane City Hall and had early involvement in educational broadcasting.
In 1936 she claimed that she had attended 360 committee meetings that year. Her home Scott Street Flats in Kangaroo Point is listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.
Her husband Frank retired in 1936 and died in Melbourne in 1938. This Wikipedia article was originally based in part on The Queensland Heritage Register published by the State of Queensland under Central Committee-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 7 July 2014, archived on 8 October 2014).
Membership
A deeply committed evangelical Anglican, Zina Cumbrae-Stewart was an executive member of the Australian Red Cross in Queensland for twenty-two years, was an original member of the Mother"s Union and its president for nine years and president of the National Council of Women of Queensland for nine years.
