Elsie Euphemia Andrews MBE (23 December 1888 – 26 August 1948) was a New Zealand teacher and community leader.
Her parents were John Andrews and his wife, Emily Young, who both came from Taranaki pioneering families.
When she failed entrance examinations to both university and teachers' college, she became a pupil-teacher at Waitara School.
[1] Andrews was a member of the New Zealand Women Teachers' Association and from 1931 had an active role as secretary in establishing and running the Pan-Pacific Women's Association, later the Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association.
[5] In the 1938 King's Birthday Honours, Andrews was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire.