WOMAN WIELDS PICK
FAIR MINE MANAGER HAS GOOD MUSCLI‘S LIKES HARD WORK There is nothing of the "weaker" sex about Miss Margaret Maloney. 0! Ballarat, Melbourne. She is probably Australia's only female mine manager. and has de‘ veloped a. hefty arm for manual workShe has done pick work and. With assistance. has also sunk a. 1604a”shaft. But those were only incidentals mentioned in the \‘V’arden‘s (Joltt 1“ cently. when she fought a claim on fol" fciture of two leases which she 110145The claim 101' the leases was 13“” by a gold miner named Shaw. Vb” wants to test the ground for sokl Miss Maloney told the court 9“ she had developed a. good Imam M the sale of porcelain clay whid! 3‘” won at her mine. The warden, Mr. Elliget. P 1“: fer-red his decision. Sydney 33' yet found its women pick and W experts. but has dismvered 1“ ”if byicklayers. ‘
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 741, 14 August 1929, Page 2
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