Biography: Davies, Sonja Margaret Loveday

Labour Party colleagues, 1990

Labour Party President Ruth Dyson, Sonja Davies and Noel Scott, associate minister of education, are pictured in January 1990, on their way to a Labour caucus meeting. One of Davies’s political achievements was to get better funding, staffing and training for early childhood education.

Using this item

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1990/0297/12-F

Photograph by John Nicholson

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How to cite this page

Anne Else. 'Davies, Sonja Margaret Loveday', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2010. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23236/labour-party-colleagues-1990 (accessed 22 June 2026).