Portrait from life. Hilda Ross

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Year
1955
Reference
32268
Media type
Audio
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Rights Information
Year
1955
Reference
32268
Media type
Audio
Series
D series, ca. 1935-1950s.
Duration
00:31:05
Credits
RNZ Collection
Ross, Hilda, 1883-1959, Speaker/Kaikōrero
New Zealand National Party

Portrait from Life - Hilda Ross, Minister of Social Welfare. This programme includes a spoken introduction, commentary and an edited interview with Hilda Ross. It includes: her role as Minister of Social Welfare, her candidacy for the National Party, being a woman in Parliament, her family, her father was a founder of the Seaman's Union, piano teaching and musical societies, being granted the freedom of Hamilton, health camps, WACVC and wartime voluneering, background necessary to stand for Parliament, and her Christianity.