Engineering student
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Dec. 5. A sft electrical engineering student from Saigon, Miss Huong Thi Dinh, aged 22, will have a direct link with the arrival of the jumbo jet in Auckland on Friday. She is a first professional engineering student and the only woman studying electrical engineering at Auckland University and has been at work for the last week in an Onehunga engineering and hydraulics factory, assembling special trailer units for loading and unloading jumbo jets. This is part of the 400 hours of practical work she has to record for her degree Her work includes operating the factory machines such as a huge radial drill. Because of her size the men have agreed to help her move from machine to machine the large box she has to stand on to reach the controls. Otherwise, she is treated as one of the workers.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33093, 7 December 1972, Page 6
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147Engineering student Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33093, 7 December 1972, Page 6
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