Mary Gibson
New Zealand teacher and school principal
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Kate Andersen
New Zealand teacher, community leader and writer
Edna Pearce
New Zealand kindergarten teacher and director, policewoman, and internment camp supervisor; first policewoman in the coutnry to make an arrest
Elizabeth Horrell
Canterbury, New Zealand’s first female schoolteacher, teaching in Lyttelton from 1850
Emily Carpenter
New Zealand university tutor in home science, adult educationalist and consumer advocate
Emily Foster
New Zealand teacher and principal of Christchurch Girls’ High School
Esther Baber
New Zealand headmistress who ran the Fitzherbert Terrace School for many years
Christabel Robinson
New Zealand teacher and vocational guidance and community worker
Dorothy Neal White
New Zealand librarian and writer
Phoebe Myers
Phoebe Myers was a formidable and tenacious woman whose ability as a teacher and political activist ensured that women’s interests became better represented in the New Zealand education system.