Born in 1900, Miss Kitty Carpenter became a
Bahá’í in 1936 since when many members of the Carpenter-Hancock family
of which she is a member have followed her and joined the Faith. An
adventurous and enquiring soul, she undertook her first pilgrimage to
Haifa in 1938, arriving there shortly after the marriage of Shoghi Effendi
and, after living for two years in Australia, she returned to New Zealand
where she embarked on a life of service to the Cause. Towards the end of
the Second World War, she willingly made available her premises (a
counter lunch-shop) in Anzac Avenue as a venue for the Auckland Bahá’í
community and, in the 1950’s, responded to the call by travel teaching in
Mangakino and Whangarei. She served on the National Spiritual Assembly
of the Bahá’ís of New Zealand during 1958 and, two years later, moved
from Christchurch to Hamilton to aid in establishing an assembly there.
1964 saw her travel teaching in Invercargill and the following year she was
appointed to the National Teaching Committee. Responding to the need for
the believers to establish another assembly, Kitty finally made her home in
Tauranga where she is an active and much loved exponent of the Cause.
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