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Troopers' Memorial be moved, and with advice from brother-in-law and city councillor Percy Poole and former mayoress Mabel Wachner, Poole successfully ran for the Invercargill City Council in 1971. She was only the second woman to ever run for the council, and was
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street demonstration against Jews in 1932, and thus began a years-long struggle to migrate the family to
Palestine. While much of Poole's maternal family also made it to Palestine, her father's family was largely wiped out in
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when her bowel was perforated during a biopsy, she died on the morning of 26 December 1992 at the age of 67. She is buried at
Invercargill's Eastern Cemetery, along with her husband who died on 27 April 2002.
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the first to be elected. She topped the poll in 1974 and was made Deputy Mayor. As Deputy Mayor, Poole appeared on the New
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on 25 November 1992 due to severe back pain. She was diagnosed with cancer. Treatment was unsuccessful, and after developing
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Southland biography
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Jewries at the
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Gilman, Sander L; Milton, Shane, eds. (1 September 1999).
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920:. Papers Past. 18 August 1988.
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902:. Papers Past. 21 March 1986.
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714:"Southland: A winter journey"
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981:. Invercargill City Council.
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