HONOUR FOR AN OLD ST. HILDA'S GIRL
Miss Florence Mary Harding, M.A., daughter of the late Rev. G. W. H. Harding, formerly of North-east Valley and Waikouaiti, has been awarded a Sir William Hartley scholarship, which entitles her to three years at Edinburgh University. Miss Harding hao had a distinguished career. She was educated at St. Hilda,’s College, which she entered in the kindergarten and remained until she matriculated. Entering Canterbury Collego in 1928 she graduated B.A. in 1930, and took the senior scholarship in pure mathematics in that year. In 1931 she obtained her M.A. with first-class honours in mathematics. Miss Harding is the first woman student at Canterbury College and second in the University of New Zealand to obtain the last-named distinction.
She is distinguished also in economics, and she proposes to go to Edinburgh University to pursue advanced mathematics on the statistical side, with the special application of statistics to economics.
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Evening Star, Issue 21090, 30 April 1932, Page 20
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154HONOUR FOR AN OLD ST. HILDA'S GIRL Evening Star, Issue 21090, 30 April 1932, Page 20
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