HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR IS DUE.

White Ribbon, Volume 44, Issue 514, 18 August 1938, Page 1

HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR IS DUE.

Women'B struggle for lib-it > and ilitj hai extended <>\- uriea and perhape nowhere was it d severe Mian Ui the struggle for edvrav iion. Mid<ii- i families, wit were well educated, considered II untie* essai j to teat h gii is even to ami wrlta it is withm the memor) of tii- present generation <>i women of it brain power, who could read, hut

could never writ*'. Even when primal*) educ it ion wan :• : quite the Unlveroltlee !• fused to K: a lit degrees to w omen, and 11 ford in one . ontained mis i »te: "Senior Wrangler Mr. . tin Senior \\ raiiK l ' t MISS l-Mw I ••It.' The gentleman, w lio.- MUM we ii,i\. forgotten, held the position l.rrans- hf was » man. Nut becauee be had won it ly. Owing to the conservatism of the Old World Universities, to tins I tominloi the honour .1 capping the Urol n in tin- British Empire to receh ♦• a I r nl-

v.rsit \ degn - It was Mi K \! Edger, latei Miv w \ I tellkno* n to all White Ribboneri so om of our I>■ minion < tfftcera She Ntudenl at Auckland University <" -1 i*-»_: and last month the oollegi (oon memorated the »-\enf hj i lacing the women's common-room an oak with the following inacription:

TO HONOUR KATE MIiJ.M IAM El " . KlI KB. W I EWANB) a FORMER si i DENT I >F THIS COLLEGE AND THE FIRST woman T<>.,i:.U'i ACT within THE BRITISH BVPIRE. i: \( 'HKi.« >R <>R vl;T> i NIVERSITO • n \i.w ZEALAND \l>. 1 NTT

The photo her* is o 4 tJi late airs Evans at the time • ■*'. her graduation mi is'.t an- i a loerar s the om pr»tn hov i»> BUkogi Oeerle at the capping cer >mon>. ount is from th« Aucklt .-1 "Star" of Jul.. I

>M UKMORATI\ i. DOOK Bl ILT. In the tan ir the British Hfcnpi r< recelv< - uuivi ol the Auckland I ni v« Mi - \\ h ai.rl> MiSM Kan Milligan !.. • <ite luation .<n oak -i<>"i the won mmom

with a suitable inscription. Ifiaa Bdger wa • i tipped In the Auckland Choral Hall a i o U n <i which w wards- built the ..lil i huild--1 Jul) II The importaj the occasion was full) "•' the time, and the hall was . roe ded, man) Influential citizens being i>ta■enf and nuking Ilea r nll> 1i - Iron b) I tlshop (ow i» \t : H h I.ask member of tin H ofK- I thea and the I :t \ I )a\ id I'a to • M i Lusk was chair-ui-l he drew attention t<> the Itl.s Will. Il ii;i<i mfronted Kdger In her

studies He pointed out the i i .-i the building, which was as little liK- a universit\ as was possihh to Imagl • Mr Bi erred to the high ol dard ol ttu- New Zealand Otortsrsttj stating that it was then the higheot in the world tor admlnston to the B a. degree.

\ pupil ol trw Auckland Grammar .1 In in na' [towing ■ £6«'. .is an iff th»* itchurch Otrl H at a lbsequently I . oare th»-