Gaze History: NSG Memoir
Doris Kathleen Gaze
Born in 1895, Doris was an intelligent, attractive woman.
She won prizes for her academic work at Auckland Girls Grammar School,
which, in her day, was combined with the boys’ school on the Symonds Street
site. For instance in 1909 she gained the First Prize in Mathematics and
Science in Form 3A: the Poems of Tennyson.
After school, Doris assisted her parents in their business, and in the
home, nursing both parents in their final illnesses, and still occupying the
family home at the time of her death.
Doris’s contribution to Bible Class work, the Women’s Bible Class
Union, Bible Class Camps, Bible Class sports clubs, and later to the Baptist
Women’s Missionary Union, notably as its Treasurer for many years, formed a
most important part of her life.
She was a keen baby-sitter for her two nephews and niece, and regularly
accompanied Noel’s family on holidays.
Her last great adventure was a trip to see the mission fields in India
and East Pakistan and to meet her first great-niece, Judy.
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