A WOMAN'S LIFE
SUNSHINE AND SHADOW. By Helen Black, Printed by John Mclndoe, Dunedin. RS. BLACK has hed a busy and interesting life about which she tells us in some detail. She has travelled extensively through Europe and America, she has filled the onerous public position of Mayoress, she has brought up a family (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) of four, and she has worked hard to build up a business that threatened to collapse on the death of her husband. As a traveller, she set out to see all there was to see, and she enjoyed doing all that travellers before her had done. She was the only woman candidate to stand for the Democratic Party in its unsuccessful campaign in 1935, and she has written an interesting chapter about that almost forgotten episode. As with so many of the other candidates, the large and enthusiastic meetings she had addressed counted for nothing at the polls and she lost her deposit. The story of her life has been much bound up with the story of Dunedin over the past 20 years, and it is Dunedin readers who will be most interested. Her 2 Ee was Mayor during the years of e depression, and she describes vividly the campaign which Dunedin maintained to supply food and clothing to its unemployed and, more particularly, to fight the despair.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 426, 22 August 1947, Page 16
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230A WOMAN'S LIFE New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 426, 22 August 1947, Page 16
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