the protests against the 1981 South African rugby tour of New Zealand, she was injured by police at the Wellington protest on 29 July 1981. Legacy The Labour History Project funds and organises a Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture which is a biennial public lecture. The work of the New Dance Group was presented in the biennial Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture in 2011 by Marianne Schultz including students from the New Zealand School of Dance reconstructing the 1945 New Dance Group piece Sabotage in a Factory. The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa holds in its collections a typewriter of Bailey's amongst other items. Rona Bailey was a collector of New Zealand ballads and folk songs, which she started while she was recovering from tuberculosis. She and Burt Roth published Shanties by the way (1967) a collection of New Zealand popular and radical folk songs. She was made a life member of the New Zealand Folklore Society in 1970. Bailey was recognised by the theatre community in 1996 receiving the Significant Contribution to Theatre award in the Wellington-based Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards. Death Bailey died in Wellington in 2005, aged 90 years. References 1914 births 2005 deaths People from Gisborne, New Zealand New Zealand dancers New Zealand educators New Zealand communists