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Shirley Smith made an astonishing contribution to New Zealand public life, and her biography rightly celebrates it. But it does so without indulging in triumphalism or sentimentalism, nor by glossing over the personal costs that making those contributions incurred.

Giovanni Tiso, Landfall

Sarah Gaitanoss fine and thorough biography of Smith revives a New Zealand where ideas, beliefs and politics were important things.

David Herkt, Sunday Star Times

A model of what a biography should be... built of well-sourced facts, and those facts tell a ripping yarn.

Bill Hastings, New Zealand Review of Books

A picture of a very complex, brilliant, loyal, woman; full of life, very readable and highly recommended.

Holly Walker, Nine to Noon, RNZ

Sarah Gaitanos has done a great job ensuring that Shirleys legacy is remembered.

Simon Nathan, Scoop Review of Books

Her greatest disadvantage was that she was a woman. The biography is a detailed and arresting account of how a woman born a hundred years ago had to cope with that handicap.

Brian Easton, Pundit

She wanted to be defined by her achievements as a person, not by her gender. Were she alive now, she may be comforted by the knowledge that she is remembered for both.

Yvonne van Dongen, Sunday

The real beauty in Gaitanoss biography was the way it acknowledged the grey areas in great people, and the frailness of life with all its contradictions.

Meg de Ronde, Newsroom

For Stephanos, Thomas and Alexi

Victoria University of Wellington Press

PO Box 600 Wellington

vup.victoria.ac.nz

Copyright Sarah Gaitanos 2019

First published 2019

Reprinted 2020

This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without the permission of the publishers.
The moral rights of the authors have been asserted.

A catalogue record is available from the National Library of New Zealand

ISBN 9781776562176 (print)

ISBN 9781776563371 (EPUB)

ISBN 9781776563388 (Kindle)

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Shirley Smith, Wellington, about 1927

The Cumming family. Standing from left: Kathleen (Kitty), Duncan, Annie, William (Willie), Eva in the middle; sitting: Emma ne White, Duncan

The Smith family at 84 Hill Street in 1913 or early 1914; back row from left: James (Jim), Annie Ethelwyn (Wynnie), George, Fiona (Woey); front row from left: David, Ann ne Gibb, John, Lorna (Tom); child in middle: Alison

David Smith and Eva Cumming in the Wellington Botanic Garden

From left: Kathleen (Kitty) Cumming, Emma Cumming, Eva Cumming, David Smith

From left: Kitty Cumming, Lorna Smith, Fiona Smith, Eva Cumming

Shirleys father, David Smith

Shirleys mother, Eva, with Shirley

Shirleys grandmother Emma White (Nannie), with Shirley

Shirleys grandmother Ann Smith (Granma), with Shirley

Eva, David and Nannie with baby Shirley

David with Shirley

First steps, with Nannie, Hill Street

Shirley with step-cousins in the Waikato; from left: Shirley, Isobel Cumming, Barbara Mayer, Duncan Mayer, Betty Cumming (in front in hat)

Sister Kathleen Cumming, New Zealand Army Nursing Service (NZANS), World War I

Shirley with David

Shirleys stepmother Margaret Elizabeth Smith, ne Gibbs, called Meta

Mr Justice Smith

Shirley

Shirley with her brother Allan

David Smith, Richard Gibbs (Metas father), Shirley and Allan at Taup

Shirleys stepmother Meta at Taup, about 1928

Shirley, Wellington, 1935, shortly before her departure for Oxford

Shirley, Wellington, 1935, in her debutante ballgown

Shirley, Oxford, about 1937

A postcard to Allan Smith from Munich, 1937

Wendelstein, Munich, on Shirleys European tour, summer 1937

Wendelstein, Munich, Shirley third from left, leaning against Martin Watkin

Hungarian State Wine Cellars, Budafok, Budapest; Shirley second from left

Hungarian State Wine Cellars, Budafok, Budapest; Shirley back row, centre

Vienna, with Roland Towers

Paris, with Martin Watkin

Wooden head of Shirley by sculptor Alec Miller, 1938

Shirley with her father, Geneva, 1938

David and Meta Smith, Grisons, Switzerland, 1938

Shirley, about 1943

Leysin 1939; Shirley on right, probably Dr Rollier behind her

Shirley with Bill, Sydney, May 1945

Shirley with her daughter Margaret Helen Sutch, called Helen, 1946

Shirley, Helen and Margaret Shirley Sutch departing for England on the Ruahine, August 1946

Shirley with Nannie and Helen, 1946

Identity photo of Shirley Smith attached to a Special Branch profile on her in 1953, probably taken before she left for England in 1946

NZUSA Congress, Curious Cove: Shirley, Bill and Helen centre, second row, about 1955

The SutchSmith house designed by Ernst Plischke, Todman St, Brooklyn, 1962

Bill Sutch, Shirley Smith and Mike Bungay arrive at the Wellington Magistrates Court, October 1974, after Sutch was charged under the Official Secrets Act 1951

From left: Mike Bungay, Bill Sutch, Shirley Smith, Michael Houston (behind), Ian Greig, arriving at the Supreme Court, Wellington, 17 February 1975

Shirley with Bill and Helen after the trial, 1975

David holding his great-grandson Crispin, with Helen and Shirley, and Piers climbing the bookcase in the background, Todman Street, 1978

Shirley Smith ponders a point of discussion with Mongrel Mob members outside the courthouse. Shirley represented fifteen gang members charged with unlawful assembly

Shirley in her law office, 1982

Shirley outside the Wellington High Court, 1993

SHIRLEY SMITH was one of the most remarkable New Zealanders of the twentieth century, a woman whose lifelong commitment to social justice, legal reform, gender equality and community service left a profound legacy. This biography seeks to make her contributions known and acknowledged. Beyond that, it is the story of an extraordinary woman who appeals to the hearts and minds of those who knew and never knew her.

From the beginning, Shirley inspires sympathy as her formative years were clouded by loss. She was born in Wellington in October 1916. Three months later her mother died and her father, lawyer David Smith, joined the army and went to war, leaving the baby with her grieving maternal grandmother. That Shirley had no memory of her mother doesnt diminish the significance of the loss. In a sense she was always a motherless child.

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