OBITUARY
The death was announced recently from England of Mrs Ross De Costa, formerly Miss Ethel Benjamin, of Dunedin. Mrs De Costa, who was educated at the Otago Girls’ High School, and later at the University of Otago, where she took her degree in law, was the first woman lawyer in New Zealand. She was interested in the foundation of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, and was present at the first meeting held in Dunedin on March 1, 1899. She acted for some time as one of the honorary solicitors of the society. Mrs De Costa had been living for some years in the south of France, and made her way to England after the German occupation. Her death was the result of a street accident.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25427, 7 January 1944, Page 4
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130OBITUARY Otago Daily Times, Issue 25427, 7 January 1944, Page 4
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