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The fireworks lady

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The fireworks lady

Fireworks safety campaigner Beverley Pentland was known to thousands of 1970s schoolchildren as 'the fireworks lady'. She visited hundreds of schools urging children to handle fireworks with caution. Her call was made more effective through the distribution of comic-like pamphlets and posters designed to appeal to children. This 1976 image shows Pentland holding a poster that states, 'Teach your children the fireworks code'.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: 1/4-025739-F

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.

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Raymond Miller, Interest groups – Consumer interest groups, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/34984/the-fireworks-lady (accessed 29 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Raymond Miller, i tāngia i te 14 March 2012, updated 1 April 2020.