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•'HARD ON WOMEN AND HORSES," AUSTRALIA WAS NOT WON WITHOUT HARDSHIPS. United Press Association—Bj Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received March 30, 9 a.m. LONDON, March 29. Concerning the statement by the Sydney correspondent of "Ihe limes," that married immigrants to New South Wales were .denied employment because they were encumbered with children, Mary Gaunt (Mrs H. Lindsay Miller),the novelist, in a letter to "The Times," quotes the proverb to the effect that the frontier is hard on women and on horses.
"Australia,"' she says, "was not won without hardships. Nowhere does individuality tell more markedly than in the immigrant. Those who are unprepared to imitate the earliest settlers—risk something and incur some deprivation for their own future—had better stay and starve comfortably in Old England." The letter justifies the attitude of Australian farmers, an-3 asks whether an English mistress engaging a cook would not her un the discovery that she would be likely to become a mother.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10006, 31 March 1910, Page 5
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158NO ENCUMBRANCES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10006, 31 March 1910, Page 5
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