INSURANCE AGENT

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31585, 24 January 1968, Page 2

INSURANCE AGENT

A zoologist who calls herself “an insurance agent for the Sydney Water Board” is in Christchurch for the congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science. She Is Dr Hilary Jolly, whose job is to check the quality of water before it is distributed to consumers. “There needs to be a certain amount of microscopic plant life in water, but some organisms block filters and give a taste and odour to water These have to be kept out,” she said last evening. Dr Jolly spends much of her working time in a small boat, rowing on reservoirs. This is the side of her job she enjoys most, because it keeps her in the sunshine and fresh air away from the city. A woman who takes life in her stride. Dr Jolly has been known to crawl along water tunnels on research, and has often had to climb down ladders into reservoirs 30ft deep, when they have been emptied fori cleaning. “I have to find out what is growing In the reservoirs, but climbing up and down into them is the nastiest part of my job,” she said. N.Z. Jet Boats She has often been a member of research teams doing water surveys on Australian dams, for which jet boats built from New Zealand designs are used as transport Dr Jolly was born in Hamilton and took her Ph.D. in zoology at the University of Otago.