Biography: Dallas, Ruth

Launching Ragamuffin scarecrow

Two women and a man looking at an open book in front of an old-fashioned printing press.

Writer Ruth Dallas (centre), standing with Els Noordhof (left) and Keith Maslen at the launch of her children’s book Ragamuffin scarecrow, in Dunedin in 1969.

Using this item

Hocken Collections, University of Otago

Reference: <i>Otago Daily Times</i> photograph, P1998-028/07-009

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How to cite this page

Diana Morrow. 'Dallas, Ruth', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2022. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47688/launching-ragamuffin-scarecrow (accessed 4 June 2026).