Rangitinia Wilson grew up in Mangamuka, Northland, and was educated at Kawakawa District High School. She began a piupiu making business in her home in 1973 and later began tutoring at the Auckland Technical Institute’s Education Department pre-employment programme for school leavers from She is a member of the Māori Women’s Welfare League and is an executive member of the National Council of Women’s North Shore Branch. She became a Justice of the Peace in 1982.
Biographical sources
- "Rangitinia Wilson." Celebrating Women: New Zealand Women and Their Stories. Ed. Christine Cole Catley. Prod. Mediawomen of New Zealand. Whatamongo Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound, N.Z.: Cape Catley, 1984. 166-169.
Other
- "Rangitinia Wilson." Celebrating Women: New Zealand Women and Their Stories. Ed. Christine Cole Catley. Prod. Mediawomen of New Zealand. Whatamongo Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound, N.Z.: Cape Catley, 1984. 166-169.
- This autobiographical account is taken from a series of biographies and interviews of 50 women from over 600 nominations for the Mediawomen’s Awards conferred on Suffrage Day, 19 September 1982. Wilson discusses her early introduction into dressmaking, her winning the 1982 Te Kopu supreme fashion award, and her work at the Birkdale College Whare Wananga in Auckland.