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Cora Louisa Burrell (née Keetley, 19 June 1889 – 20 October 1962) from Christchurch was a
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activist, on the Canterbury Division executive and a Dominion councillor. National Party historian Barry Gustafson said that she was "one of the most important and influential women in the party's early history." She was appointed a member of the
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on 22 June 1950, one of three woman members of the
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appointed by the First National Government in 1950 to vote for its abolition. The other women appointed in 1950 were Ethel Gould and Agnes Weston. Only two other women, Mary Anderson and Mary Dreaver, had ever been appointed to the Council (by Labour, in 1946). In the 1956 Queen's Birthday Honours, Burrell was appointed a
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, for social welfare services.


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1889 births 1962 deaths Members of the New Zealand Legislative Council New Zealand National Party MLCs Women members of the New Zealand Legislative Council New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire 20th-century New Zealand women politicians 20th-century New Zealand politicians {{NewZealand-politician-stub