NOTABLE AUSTRALIANS

Shannon News, 19 July 1929, Page 2

NOTABLE AUSTRALIANS

Mrs Irc'-ie'Longman is the first wornV ar f member of Parliament in Queenshind. Her husband is the ot the Queensland. Museum, and, being scientific herself, she has often accompanied him on such expeditions. Dr. Elsie V. Pa.scoe, until she married, had the distinction of being the most rJig>h- ; lv paid woman in the employment of the State: She was placed in charge of the 'female division in one of the laioest / menta<l hospitals in Sydney. She 3 carried out her duties so successfully that the custom of placing women in such hospitals was made definite. As yet there is no such custom, I be lievc, in New Zealand. . Feminine "lack of inventive faculty" is again disproved by a Queensland woman ex war nurse,' Elizabeth Kenny, whose -•Svlvia" stretcher has been adopted by "the Commonwealth navy, and Air Forces and elsewhere. This invention has been exhibited in important centres so that probably its recognition will be world-wide.