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Haurongo: Smith, Shirley Hilda Stanley

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Pae tukutuku

Where have all the wowsers gone?

See Shirley Smith and W.B. Sutch discuss the contemporary women's movement in this 1972 television interview on NZonScreen.

Rārangi pukapuka

Shirley Smith papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, MS-Group-2127

Shirley Smith file, New Zealand Security Intelligence Service

Shirley Smith interview, 4 November 1988, Wellington District Law Society Oral History Project: 1989, OHA LAW/2528, Alexander Turnbull Library

Gaitanos, S. Shirley Smith: an examined life. Wellington, 2019

Glasgow, N. Directions: New Zealanders explore the meaning of life. Christchurch, 1995

Ovenden, K. Bill & Shirley: a memoir. Palmerston North, 2020

Smith, S. ‘My Life in the Law’. In Claiming the law: essays by New Zealand women in celebration of the 1993 suffrage centennial. Eds. Elisabeth McDonald and Graeme Austin. Wellington, 1993

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Sarah Gaitanos. 'Smith, Shirley Hilda Stanley', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2019. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/230976/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).