OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25572, 27 June 1944, Page 3

OBITUARY

Thfe death occurred in Melbourne last Tuesday of Sister Eudora, of the Sisters of the Church, head mistress of the Church of England Girls’ Grammar School, St. Kilda, who was at one time on the staff of St. Hilda’s Collegiate School, Dunedin. Sister Eudora was Miss Bessie Te Wenerau Grace, eldest daughter of the late Mr Laurence Marshall Grace, of Wellington. Her mother was Te Kahui, daughter of Te Heuheu Tukino (Horonuku), chief of the Ngati-Tuwharetoa tribe, of Taupo. She was educated at the Nelson Girl’s College and Canterbury University College, where she gained a New Zealand University blue at lawn tennis. Deciding to enter the order, she went to its mother house at Kilburn, London, and was nrofessed in 1922. Subsequently she graduated B.A. and M.A. of London University, with first-class honours in modern languages, and was awarded the Berlitz D'ploma for studies in French, German and Spanish. She was for a number of vears head mistress of St. Hilda's Collegiate School, Paddington, London until 1939, when she was asked to take charge of the order's school for girls in Melbourne. Sister Eudora made a visit of several weeks to relatives in New Zealand last summer, and became seriously ill on her return to Melbourne.