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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This history has been adapted from my MA history thesis (Auckland University, 1972). I would like to acknowledge members of the staff of the Auckland University History Department who assisted me during the writing of my thesis, especially Sir Keith Sinclair and the late Professor Jim Holt.

The most useful primary sources for research were the PSA records and the Nash papers. Parliamentary debates provided a useful lead in the early stages of my research. For permission to study papers in their possession I would like to thank the staffs of the PSA National Office and the Auckland Regional Office, the Council for Equal Pay and Opportunity, the National Council of Women, the Federation of Labour and the Labour Party. I would also like to thank the librarians of the Dan Long Memorial Library in Wellington, the Library of the Auckland Institute and Museum, the Alexander Turnbull Library, the General Assembly Library and National Archives, for their willing assistance.

I wish to acknowledge the contributions of the late Dan Long, Bill Sutch and Jack Turnbull, who gave valuable assistance towards this history in the early 1970s.

Back in the 1970s and more recently Margaret Long, Cath Kelly, Mary Boyd and Rona Bailey gave me great help from an oral history perspective.

Nancy Taylor and Bert Roth have also provided valuable guidance. Their own New Zealand histories have been a very useful source of reference.

I also wish to thank the New Zealand Public Service Association and the Dan Long Trust for commissioning this history and the Association staff for their practical assistance.