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Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Both Bill McAra and Diana Wilsie were prominent members of the Waihi strike commemoration committee. This series contains papers pertaining to the organisation of the annual commemoration at the grave of Frederick George Evans and their efforts to have a memorial plaque for Evans erected in Waihi. From 1984 there is also material relating to the commemoration of Ernie Abbott’s death.Frederick Evans was killed during the 1912 Miners' Strike in Waihi, and Ernie Abbott was killed by...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Both Bill McAra and Diana Wilsie were prominent members of the Waihi strike commemoration committee. This series contains papers pertaining to the organisation of the annual commemoration at the grave of Frederick George Evans and their efforts to have a memorial plaque for Evans erected in Waihi. From 1984 there is also material relating to the commemoration of Ernie Abbott’s death.Frederick Evans was killed during the 1912 Miners' Strike in Waihi, and Ernie Abbott was killed by...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers that have been grouped here, and arranged as far as possible chronologically, relate to W. McAra’s active life in political organisations from membership of the New Zealand Labour Party and his period as President of the Thames Labour Party Representation Committee, 1937, to his expulsion from the Communist Party of New Zealand in 1974. From the early 1960s the papers also include those of Diana M. Wilsie.The continued interest of McAra and Wilsie in CPNZ internal...