Sarah Page (prohibitionist)

Sarah Page (née Saunders; 26 August 1863 – 20 January 1950), also known as Sarah Saunders Page, was a New Zealand teacher, feminist, prohibitionist, socialist, social reformer, and politician.

Sarah Saunders was born in Waimea South, Nelson, New Zealand in 1863.

[3][4] In 1896, she married Samuel Page, who was a science demonstrator at Canterbury Museum and like herself a Quaker.

The three candidates elected in the St Albans ward, which included John Beanland and Ernest Andrews, were all from the right-leaning Citizens Association.

[1][10] She bequeathed £2,000 to the Canterbury University College's chemistry department where her husband had been employed.