Bread and roses : her story / Sonja Davies.
Material type: TextPublication details: Auckland, N.Z. : Australia and New Zealand Book Co. ; Masterton, N.Z. : Fraser Books, 1984.Description: 309 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 090862008X (pbk.)
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Heritage & Archives | Alexander Library | Te Rerenga Mai o Te Kauru Heritage Collections | Reference - not for loan | B DAV | 1 | Reference Only | T00074752 |
Includes index.
Includes index. -The autobiography of Sonja Davies, this volume offers an account of her numerous personal setbacks, including the death of the father of her first child, years spent in and out of hospital combating TB and the death of her son. She describes how, in the face of such disasters she became the president of the NZ Association of Child Care Centres and the first woman elected to the executive of the Federation of Labour.
Includes chapters on life in Mariri, Nelson and Motueka and her role in the Nelson Railway protest 1955
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