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390:. The Wene Grace Cup is awarded annually after the inter-Anglican girls' school speech competition. Wilding remembered her friend as "immensely popular, a splendid hockey captain, tennis champion, above all set an example of absolute integrity and a keen sense of honour – her word once given was never broken".
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from 1915 to teach the fourth form, tennis and singing. By 1921, having seen colleagues leave St Hilda's to teach in schools in Burma, Australia, and London, Grace decided she would travel to the mother house of the
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Collegiate School in Paddington from 1928 until it closed in 1936. For three years, Grace took a break from teaching, and was at St Mary's Convalescent Home in
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in mixed doubles. In 1909, Grace was elected vice president of the
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in 1926, having studied French, German and education, and also attained a blue for lawn tennis. This made her the first Māori woman to earn a university degree. In 1926, Grace enrolled at
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Literary Club. In 1912, Grace's pupils debated the neighbouring
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with a motion set by Grace, "that the execution of Mary Queen of Scots was justifiable". St
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