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Biography: Savage, Michael Joseph

Michael Joseph Savage on the campaign trail

Michael Joseph Savage on the campaign trail
Michael Joseph Savage is greeted by an enthusiastic crowd during the 1938 election campaign, at the end of the Labour government's first term in office.

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Barry Gustafson. 'Savage, Michael Joseph', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/1824/michael-joseph-savage-on-the-campaign-trail (accessed 5 June 2026).