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Saunders, Lorraine
Full NameSAUNDERS, Miss Ethel Lorraine
Date of Birth22 June 1909Biography
Educated at Shannon Primary School, Feilding District High School, Napier Girls’ High School,
Queen Margaret College Wellington, Nelson Girls’ College, Girls’ High School Christchurch, Epsom Girls’ Grammar School, and Auckland University College. Belonged to St Davids Church in Auckland. Took first section of Bachelor of Science, Took teachers training Auckland Training College, qualifying for a Teachers' "B" Certificate. Then taught as a probationary Teacher at Mt Eden and Wellesley Street Schools.
Appointed as an Evangelistic worker to the Punjab Mission in 1935
Took shortened course at the Presbyterian Women's Training Institute, Dunedin February to August 1935
Dedicated for Mission service 29 August 1935
Own Missionary of the “Young Women’s Bible Class Union” November 1935 to September 1944
Sailed for India 11 September 1935
Language study at Landour, Mussoorie.
Kharar, India
Jagadhri India – Responsible for Women’s work among Christian and non-Christian women in Jagadhri town and surrounding villages in the district. Since the partition of India in 1947, the work has been among the Hindus and Sikhs.
Returned to NZ on furlough 23 June 1941
Delay in returning to India due to World War Two
Appointed to Orakei 27 July 1942 to 16 July 1943
Returned to India 23 September 1943
Involved in relief and support for women in very difficult war time situations, a lot of time in a camp for abducted women August 1948
Manager of the Mash’al Press from October 1958. Because of extreme exhaustion and overtiredness
she came home on early furlough, having resigned from the Press, arriving in New Zealand 20 September 1962
Date of Birth22 June 1909Biography- born 22 June 1909 at Palmerston North
- daughter of Alexander SAUNDERS and Esther WALLACE (married 1905)
- died 23 July 2010 Christchurch, aged 101 years.
Educated at Shannon Primary School, Feilding District High School, Napier Girls’ High School,
Queen Margaret College Wellington, Nelson Girls’ College, Girls’ High School Christchurch, Epsom Girls’ Grammar School, and Auckland University College. Belonged to St Davids Church in Auckland. Took first section of Bachelor of Science, Took teachers training Auckland Training College, qualifying for a Teachers' "B" Certificate. Then taught as a probationary Teacher at Mt Eden and Wellesley Street Schools.
Appointed as an Evangelistic worker to the Punjab Mission in 1935
Took shortened course at the Presbyterian Women's Training Institute, Dunedin February to August 1935
Dedicated for Mission service 29 August 1935
Own Missionary of the “Young Women’s Bible Class Union” November 1935 to September 1944
Sailed for India 11 September 1935
Language study at Landour, Mussoorie.
Kharar, India
Jagadhri India – Responsible for Women’s work among Christian and non-Christian women in Jagadhri town and surrounding villages in the district. Since the partition of India in 1947, the work has been among the Hindus and Sikhs.
Returned to NZ on furlough 23 June 1941
Delay in returning to India due to World War Two
Appointed to Orakei 27 July 1942 to 16 July 1943
Returned to India 23 September 1943
Involved in relief and support for women in very difficult war time situations, a lot of time in a camp for abducted women August 1948
Manager of the Mash’al Press from October 1958. Because of extreme exhaustion and overtiredness
she came home on early furlough, having resigned from the Press, arriving in New Zealand 20 September 1962
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Saunders, Lorraine. Presbyterian Research Centre, accessed 29/04/2026, https://pcanzarchives.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/112649
