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Biography: Locke, Elsie Violet

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Maureen Birchfield. 'Locke, Elsie Violet', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2018. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/230647/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).