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Elsie Euphemia Andrews

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Elsie Euphemia Andrews

As a teacher, promoter of women's causes and peace activist, Elsie Andrews touched many lives. She wrote, self-deprecatingly, 'In some curious way I appear to count with people, probably because of my bulk and owl-like appearance. It passes for wisdom'.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand Free Lance Collection (PAColl-0785)

Reference: PAColl-5469-002

Photograph by Stanley P. Andrew

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Raewyn Dalziel. 'Andrews, Elsie Euphemia', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/44/elsie-euphemia-andrews (accessed 4 June 2026).