MISS LILIAN EDGER
INTERESTING LIFE EW j The last surviving late Rev. Samuel Edger. Missis Edger. has died in her As an infant she arrived in*j? Zealand by the Matilda Watta®* in 1862 with the original Albert® settlers. One of the first and brilliant women students in versity of New Zealand, she toot® B.A. degree at the age of 19 anal* M.A. the following year, and*®: the Nelson Girls' College was opsin ISS3 she was appointed first as?; ant. Five years later she ope®,; private secondary school for Auckland, which she conducts! 3 several vears. Miss Edger then became ested in the Theosophical Soct. and helped to found the branch, for which she public lecuirer and class J®?r After making a lecturing society through New Zealand, ajtralia and India. she made ; in the last-named country, ing there for about 40 years. W®her stav she was for several principal of tlie Theosophica School at Benares, and suhsSPjfL took charge of tlie education I £#. two sons oi ihe Maharajah w hanga. About two and a hail i, ago she returned to New Zeals® 1
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 170, 21 July 1941, Page 8
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182MISS LILIAN EDGER Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 170, 21 July 1941, Page 8
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