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Biography: Locke, Elsie Violet

Graduation day

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Graduation day

Elsie Locke graduated from Auckland University College in May 1933. Her years in Auckland prompted a political awakening which informed her activities for the rest of her life.

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Maureen Birchfield. 'Locke, Elsie Violet', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2018. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47014/graduation-day (accessed 4 June 2026).