Laurie Salas
Dame Margaret Laurence "Laurie" Salas (née Hay, 8 February 1922 – 26 January 2017) was a New Zealand women's rights and peace activist. She was born in Wellington, New Zealand.[1]
Salas was involved with the Playcentre movement, and became that organisation's first representative on the National Council of Women. Salas was a New Zealand committee member for the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, and she was also an honorary vice president of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs.[1] In the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours Salas was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for community service.[2]
Salas died on 26 January 2017 in Kaori, New Zealand, aged 94.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Interview with Laurie Salas". National Library of New Zealand. 1 September 1993. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
- ↑ No. 49010. 12 June 1982. p. 40. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/49010/supplement/40
- ↑ "Death of Dame Laurie Salas". Scoop Independent News. 27 January 2017. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1701/S00180/death-of-dame-laurie-salas.htm. Retrieved 29 January 2017.