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Biography: Szászy, Miraka

Māori Women’s Welfare League, 1951

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Māori Women’s Welfare League, 1951

Mira Petricevich (later Szászy) stands to address the Māori Women’s Welfare League's inaugural conference in 1951. Whina Cooper is seated third from left, wearing a headscarf.

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Melissa Matutina Williams. 'Szászy, Miraka', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2020. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/46953/maori-womens-welfare-league-1951 (accessed 24 June 2026).