WOMEN MINE OWNERS
WORK IN NEW GUINEA In the Morobe goldfields of New Guinea, a number of the gold mines are owned and run by women. Though they do no physical work, they have to train the natives they employ, and supervise them continually. An account of the conditions these women face is given by Mrs Alice Allen Innes, a much-travelled journalist, who is at present touring New Zealand. Mrs Innes lived in New Guinea for many years. Before the war the Morobe goldfields, where she spent several years, had extremely primitive conditions, said Mrs Innes. There were no roads over the steep ranges to the mines, and people, machinery, building material, and furniture all had to be transported by air—even the bread and the milk were delivered by plane. Many of the women who pioneered the country had to go back to their damaged workings and homes after the Japanese had been driven out, and were now building up everything again from the foundations.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25450, 23 March 1948, Page 2
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