Maria Wodzicka née Maria Dunin-Borkowska (1901–1968) was a New Zealand welfare worker and community leader. She was born in Klimaszówka,

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

in 1901. She was wife of

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Kazimierz Wodzicki Count Kazimierz Antoni von Granöw Wodzicki (4 February 1900 – 15 June 1987) was a Polish-born New Zealand mammalogist and ornithologist. He served as a Consul-General to the Polish government-in-exile in New Zealand towards the end of the S ...

(1900–1987), a

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and

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and

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, 1941–1945 Consul-General for the

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-based

Polish government-in-exile The Polish government-in-exile, officially known as the Government of the Republic of Poland in exile ( pl, Rząd Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na uchodźstwie), was the government in exile of Poland formed in the aftermath of the Invasion of Pola ...

.Bull, P.C. (1990). ''Kazimierz Antoni Z. Granowa Wodzicki 1900-1987'', pp.199-200 in: “Gill, B.J.; & Heather, B.D. A Flying Start. Commemorating 50 years of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand, 1940-1990”, Random Century and OSNZ: Christchurch.

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