“MAN'S MEMBER"

Evening Star, Issue 19385, 20 October 1926, Page 9

“MAN'S MEMBER"

MRS JOLLIE, OF RHODESIA. Mrs E. Tawso Jollic, M.L.A., of Southern Rhodesia, the only woman member of the visiting Empire Parliamentary delegation, was besieged by interviewers on her arrival in Sydney. “What are, the chief woman’s interests you represent in Pailinment? ” she was naked by a lady reporter. “But I’m not a woman’s representative,” laughed Mrs Jollic, “I’m a man’s member.” And Mrs Jollie is in every way a credit to her She is bright and vivacious, with shingled hair and charming manners. Spectacles or horn-rimmed glasses would bo abhorrent to her. Also, she is a talented woman, which probably accounts for her husband being content to stay at homo and manage his farm, while,she drives or rides on horseback the 150 miles which separate their homestead _ from Salisbury, to attend to the affairs ol tho country. Mrs Jollie has the distinction of being tho first woman elected to a dominion Parliament. English by birth, she was organiser of the Responsibility Government Association, which attained its object in 1923. Southern Rhodesia may not loom large as yet in tho dominion’s constellation, but it has twice the area of Great Britain, and exceeds Now Zealand by some 45,000 square miles. As yet, the youngest of the selfgoverning colonies, Rhodesia is in the pioneer stage of development. This explains what Mrs Jollie moans when she describes herself as a “ man’s member,” Outsiders whose mental pictures of Rhodesian life are drawn from novels, will he rather shocked, to learn that blrs Jollie has no patience with ono author’s descriptions. “ They are about as accurate,”, she declares, “ as tho 1 Starlight ’ stories of Rolfo Bolderwood, considered as a reflection of Australian life.” Mrs Jollie is an author herself, and one of her latest hooks is entitled 1 The Real Rhodesia.’