WOMAN’S POST

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26529, 18 September 1951, Page 2

WOMAN’S POST

PUBLICITY OFFICER WITH 8.0.A.C.

Her post as publicity officer for the . British Overseas Airways Corporation ■ in Sydney has taken Miss Jessie Fawsitt, who is now on a brief visit to , Christchurch, many thousands of miles by air. In the last three months alone Miss Fawsitt has travelled 30,000 miles. In this mileage is a trip to England and back. Miss Fawsitt. on this journey, : did all the things that normal pas- , sengers do. She did the sight-seeing , trips at Singapore and Cairo and > ate a splendid lunch while seeing St Peters And the Colosseum and Other sights in Rome. On a flve-day leave she allowed the Polytechnic Touring Association to show her how much of i the Continent could be seen in a relatively short period. Miss Fawsitt spent some time at the London headquarters of the corporation, where she was stationed for about a year before going to Sydney. Miss Fawsitt, whose home town is Plymouth, has been associated with aviation for about 16 years—practically ever since she left school. Before joining the British Overseas Airways Corporation she was for nearly 12 years with Airspeed. Ltd., aircraft constructors, of Portsmouth. In W e c P“ rse of her present duties Miss Fawsitt has visited New Zealand ■ three times, and she periodically visits the capital cities on the east coast of i Australia.