DOING MAN’S WORK
A WOMAN PEARL FISHER. Even the masculine job of pearl fishing has now been taken on by a woman. She is Mrs J. E. Edwards, of Darwin, Australia, who, with the aid of her son, supervises the working of three pearling boats, each with a crew of four, including one or two Japanese divers. Mrs Edwards gained her pearling experience from her husband, who, until his death, had a schooner and a fleet of 20 boats. In those days, states “Austral News," Mrs Edwards was so afraid of losing her young children overboard that she used to dress them in bright red in order to make them conspicuous to her anxious eyes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1939, Page 4
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115DOING MAN’S WORK Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1939, Page 4
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