A Life Saver

NZ Truth, Issue 1185, 16 August 1928, Page 6

A Life Saver

•THE heroic plunge to save •a ' child's 1 life, even when she .herself was • but a high school girl; was symbolical- of the' career of Emily Siedeberg. :.' /.■•:>.. . • "' ■ . •'■ ■ ■ ;• "■■■■. ■ For, ever since, she has, devoted her--self: 'to woftien and children, being; "for many . years m the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 'Wpnien and Children, and m other organizations. : , Dr.w Emily Siedeberg has the distinction of being the first woman nledico to takeher degree m New. Zealand, having won her diploma m 1896, being followed, very closely by the late "Dyt Margaret Cruickshank, a fellowstudent of Dunedin HigH School. •She has since written m medical journals, and has furthered her medical experience m Berlin and Dublin, while she has been for some time, vicepresident of the National Council of Women here. '■'.■- Now, with her sister and Miss Mercer, also of Dunedin, she is attending as delegate, the Pan-Pacific Congress in^ Honolulu, having left by the Aorangi. , .'