Laurie Salas
New Zealand women's rights and peace activist (1922-2017)
Dame Margaret Laurence "Laurie" Salas (née Hay, 8 February 1922 – 26 January 2017) was a New Zealand women's rights and peace activist. She was born in Wellington, New Zealand.[1]
Salas was involved with the Playcentre movement, and became that organisation's first representative on the National Council of Women. Salas was a New Zealand committee member for the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, and she was also an honorary vice president of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs.[1] In the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours Salas was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for community service.[2]
Salas died on 26 January 2017 in Kaori, New Zealand, aged 94.[3]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Interview with Laurie Salas". National Library of New Zealand. 1 September 1993. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
- ↑ "No. 49010". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1982. p. 40.
- ↑ "Death of Dame Laurie Salas". Scoop Independent News. 27 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
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