Davies, Sonja, 1923-2005.

Bread and roses : her story / Sonja Davies. - Auckland, N.Z. : Masterton, N.Z. : Australia and New Zealand Book Co. ; Fraser Books, 1984. - 309 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.

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.

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Davies, Sonja, 1923-2005.


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