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Biography: Basham, Maud Ruby

Maud Ruby Basham

Maud Ruby Basham

By the mid 1930s, when this photograph was taken, Maud Ruby Basham (better known as 'Aunt Daisy') had earned a large following for her morning radio programme for women.

Using this item

Alexander Turnbull Library, S. P. Andrew Collection (PAColl-3739)

Reference: 1/4-019977; F

Photograph by Stanley P. Andrew

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

How to cite this page

Peter Downes. 'Basham, Maud Ruby', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/86/maud-ruby-basham (accessed 24 June 2026).