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Biography: Parnell, Samuel Duncan

Members of the Eight Hour Day Committee, which organised the first Labour Day celebrations in 1890

Members of the Eight Hour Day Committee, which organised the first Labour Day celebrations in 1890

David Patrick Fisher (left, front row) was a leading member of the Eight Hour Day Committee, and the elderly Samuel Duncan Parnell (centre, front row) was its figurehead.

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Herbert Roth. 'Parnell, Samuel Duncan', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1990. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2890/members-of-the-eight-hour-day-committee-which-organised-the-first-labour-day-0 (accessed 4 June 2026).