AUSTRALIAN WOMEN

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1925, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN WOMEN

That Australian women are not content to plod along in the well-worn grooves of ordinary life is shown by their aihievemnts in the following occupations and undertakings : —Mrs Fatly Hart, an Australian btisliwoman, lias taken out a patent for a series o! Australian vegetable d.ves, which she claims are far superior in colour, variety and properties to any at present used. Miss Margaret Keats, K.V.Sc.. of the Melbourne Fniversity, has been appointed inspector of Con Crossing, on the .Murray River. She is the first woman veterinary surgeon to be employed by the New South Wales Government. -Miss Eileen M. Good is one of the first women to receive a public appointment, in achitcoture. She is senior demonstrator in the Melbourne Fniversity atelier, where she gained her diploma (states a writer in the Sydney “Sunday Times”). After nine years in the business, Miss Alice Anderson, the Keiv garage, is still unique in owning and running a garage completely staffed by girls; and in such varying capacities as mecalinie, cliaul I '- cuse, cicerone. " boss,” and instructress, she is a praciical example of a woman who can more than hold lief own against men in a crowded business. It is interesting to note that the Hard Case mine, near Malcolm ■ W.A.). was so called from a woman who mined ihvre the “bard ease”), working under exactly the same conditions as the other miners. Lightning Ridge, X.S.W., also had its woman opal miner; she made £'726 on one find, and then went back to start a business in Sydney. Queensland also possesse a woman stockrider, who had a farm at Warwiek, but took up droving when it failed in 1019. She recently look a moli of 20u(l bullocks from Killarney i.Q.) to Wallangavra. on the border. Another cornstalk. Mary Lynch, won the last wood-chop-ping contests at Nanango against all men entrants. Her sister .Maggie, is also a champion wood-chopper. Mrs S. A. Whiteman is the only woman trader in Papua. She says she enjoys the life, and finds the work profitable. Most people know of Airs Banfield's life on her husband’s tropic isle; and of Beatrice Grimshaw’s adventurous life in Papua in search of copy for her Pacific novels. Mrs Zabel. who has lived oil Bndu Island, in the Torres Straits, for IS years, is its administrator for the Queensland Government, and has done a great work there.