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Haurongo: Burns, Violet Alberta Jessie

Berta Burns's 1949 campaign

Berta Burns's 1949 election campaign

An election pamphlet for Berta Burns's 1949 campaign. In 1949 Berta Burns stood for the National Party against Labour prime minister Peter Fraser in the Wellington electorate of Brooklyn, styling herself the 'housewives' champion'.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-A-New Zealand-NATIONAL-PARTY-1949-02

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jocelyn Chalmers. 'Burns, Violet Alberta Jessie', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/2780/berta-burnss-1949-election-campaign (accessed 4 June 2026).