First Woman Engineer.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1922, Page 1

First Woman Engineer.

! ATI KITES TX AUSTRALIA. j SYDNEY, Oct 25. j The first women engineer to go to i sen, Miss Victoria Alexandra |)rum- ] mond, of Perth. Scotland, has arrived in .Melbourne aboard the Blue Funnel liner Anehises. I Miss Drummond was anxious to obtain practical experience after a lone laboratory course in engineering, and arrangements were made at Glasgow with the Blue Funnel Lint, to place her on the Anehises. I Miss Drummond, who is 27 years old, seems more than ordinarily anxious to avoid the interest created in • her by virtue of her position. She has , refused to be interviewed or photoj graphed. Officers of the ship state ; that throughout the voyage she has j bean extremely shy of even the inter- ; ost of the passengers, spending most of her spare time in her cabin. In the engine-room she was described as a j willing worker, and one not afraid of ■ the grease and dirt. She keeps a re- ! gular watch, her position being that of a supernumerary, for no engineer lias | been displaced to maJie way for her. | Although she has been given the pn- j vilege of one of the passenger’s cabins for ship’s quarters, .Miss Drummond . messes with the remainder of the on- j gineering stall'. I