Tom Newnham

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Thomas Oliver "Tom" Newnham[1] QSO (1926 – 15 December 2010) was a New Zealand political activist and former educationalist. He was involved in several left wing causes: attacking institutional racism in New Zealand, and opposing the 1981 Springbok Tour and apartheid in general (both carried out in his role as Secretary of CARE).[2]

He spoke Cantonese and Mandarin fluently after living in China and was heavily involved in helping Chinese immigrants in his later years. He wrote the book Dr Bethune's Angel: The Life of Kathleen Hall about the New Zealand missionary nurse who worked with the Canadian physician, Dr. Norman Bethune, in China in the 1930s.[2]

Newnham died on 15 December 2010 from cancer, aged 84, at Elizabeth Knox Hospital, Epsom.[3]

1981 protest against Springboks in Hamilton (New Zealand), right Tom Newnham
1989 Tom Newnham at Kathleen Hall's village China
2000 Tom Newnham at Kathleen Hall commemoration in Baoding, China

Contents

[edit] Books by Tom Newnham

  • Newnham, Tom. Dr Bethune's Angel: The Life of Kathleen Hall. ISBN 711903538X. 
  • By batons and barbed wire. Graphic Publications, 1983. ISBN 9780473001124
  • Dr. Bethune's Angel: The Life of Kathleen Hall. Foreign Language Press, Beijing, 2004. ISBN 978-7119035383
  • Dr. Bethune's Angel: The Life of Kathleen Hall. Graphic Publications, Auckland, 2002. ISBN 0-9597819-9-4
  • He Ming Qing: Kathleen Hall. New World Press, 1992. ISBN 9780959781939
  • New Zealand Women in China. Graphic Publications, 1995. ISBN 0473030055
  • Apartheid is not a game: the inside story of New Zealand's struggle against apartheid sport.Graphic Publications, 1975
  • An ABC of Racial Sport : what New Zealand sporting visits to South Africa really mean .Citizens Association for Racial Equality, 1969.
  • Libel action against Prime Minister in Supreme Court, Auckland, July 4-15, 1977.Citizens Association for Racial Equality, 1977.
  • Letter to Mr. Holyoake about the proposed All Black tour of South Africa and Rhodesia. Citizens Association for Racial Equality, 1969.
  • The term "honorary white". Citizens Association for Racial Equality, 1969.
  • Some Questions for Mr Dalgety. T. O. Newnham, 1978.
  • Sione comes to New Zealand : a Samoan migrant's story Anthony Haas, Sue Kedgley, Tom Newnham .Whitcomb & Tombs, 1972. ISBN 0723303266
  • Interesting times: a Kiwi chronicle.Graphic Publications, 2003.
  • Three Chinese Communues.Graphic Educational Publications, 1967.
  • Three Chinese Communues. Rev. ed. Whitcoulls, 1975. ISBN 0723304386
  • Lake village in Cambodia.Longmans, 1965.
  • Teak Logging in Thailand. Graphic Educational Publications,1965.
  • A Village in China.Longmans, 1967.
  • Asia: the monsoon lands.3rd ed. Whitcombe and Tombs, 1973. ISBN 072330145X
  • India Builds Industry.Graphic Publications, 1966.
  • A South Indian Village. Longmans, 1965.
  • Revision Map Notebooks. Graphic Educational Publications, 1960-1961.
  • The Middle Ages. Graphic Educational Publications, 1968.
  • Rewi: The Story of Rewi Alley.Graphic Publications, 1997. ISBN 9780473046941
  • Hands and Minds Together : Rewi Alley's gung ho school. Tom Newnham and Deng Bangzhen. Graphic Publications, 1988. ISBN 0959781919
  • Fifty Years of Friendship : a short history of the NZ China Friendship Society. Graphic Publications, 2002. ISBN 0959781986
  • 1840-1990: A Long White Cloud: 19 Maori and Non-Maori Authors.Graphic Publications, 2000. ISBN 9780959781953
  • Peace Squadron: The Sharp Edge of Nuclear Protest in New Zealand. Graphic Publications, 1985. ISBN 9780959781908
  • French Polynesia, a paradise? : French colonialism and nuclear testing in the South Pacific. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1973.
  • Shandan on the Old Silk Road. Graphic Publications, 2001. ISBN 9780959781977
  • A Walk around My Fathers. Graphic Publications, 2000. ISBN 9780959781953
  • A Cry of Treason. Dunmore Press, 1978. ISBN 090856421X
  • This Family Robinson. Graphic Publication, 1993. ISBN 0473020580
  • 10 Years of C.A.R.E.. by M.P. K. Sorrenson, T. Newnham and J. de Bres. Citizens Association for Racial Equality, 1974.
  • 25 Years of C.A.R.E.. Citizens Association for Racial Equality, 1989.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Thomas Oliver Newnham". The New Zealand Herald. 17 December 2010. http://notices.nzherald.co.nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/obituary.aspx?n=thomas-oliver-newnham&pid=147156202&fhid=12598. Retrieved 18 December 2010. 
  2. ^ a b "Anti-apartheid fighter Tom Newnham dies". TVNZ. 17 December 2010. http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/anti-apartheid-fighter-tom-newnham-dies-3978124. Retrieved 18 December 2010. 
  3. ^ "Human rights campaigner Tom Newnham dies". Radio New Zealand. 16 December 2010. http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/64371/human-rights-campaigner-tom-newnham-dies. 

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