Kate Edger
Kate Milligan Evans (née Edger, 6 January 1857 – 6 May 1935) was the first women in New Zealand to get a University degree.
Quotes
[edit]- From her 1923 article, "The first girl graduates": 'It is too soon yet...for a complete answer to be given to this question, but thousands of university women are proving by their lives that it has not unfitted them for home-making, the noblest sphere of women's work.'
- As stated in Te Ara's "Biography: Edger, Kate Milligan," Hughes, Beryl 1993. Te Ara. Published 1993, Accessed December 1 2025.
