WHAT AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY WOMEN THINK ABOUT N.Z.

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 16, 29 March 1950, Page 4

WHAT AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY WOMEN THINK ABOUT N.Z.

Several women members of the West Australian primary producers’ party now touring New Zealand have their homes on farms of between 2000 to 3000 acres. Interviewed some said they did all. their own work on their farms, with the help sometimes of one or two daughters. Some of the women were accompanied by their husbands, who were still actively engaged in farming. Other husbands had retired.

Mrs J. Hall, whose home is a farm of 3000 acres at Narembeen, 200 miles east of Perth, farms wheat and sheep. * “I think your farm people w T ork harder,” she said. “The work never seems to cease —putting in one crop and reaping it, then planting another. We have two definite harvests a year.”

Only One Help Mrs Hall said she had one daugnter to help her in the home. She did her shopping in the small township of Narembeen as did Mrs E. Yeomans, whose larms 2500 acres in the same district. The two women, however, said they travelled to Perth usually bj car on frequent visits. An Englishwoman, Mrs T. Stewart said she would like to visit New Zealand again. “I like the people very much,” she said, “and it is a beautiful country. It is very much like England.” A return trip to New Zealand after 21 years was a thrill for Miss Mildred Reading, Fremantile. “I visited New Zealand last when I was on a world tour, and I do noTice vast differences in the country,” she said. “There is more cultivation and, of course, your population has grown.” $ Another member of the party, Mrs E. G. Joab, has her home on a farming property at Narrogin, between Perth and Albany. Mrs Joab said she felt more New Zealanders should visit Perth. So many, she said, visited Sydney, but they should go further afield to see Australia.