GIRLS RUN SHEEP STATION

Evening Star, Issue 19776, 28 January 1928, Page 12

GIRLS RUN SHEEP STATION

HUM ANTIC ADVENTURE. Scorning powder puffs, typewriters, and morning’ leas, two young girls set out to make their fortune hy running a sheep station of their own in the middle western districts of New South Wales. The story of their exploits, how they tended sheep, grew crops, and tried to .exterminate rabbits, was told_ by Miss E. Warren at the Women’s Vocational Conference at the Sydney University. But let no unworthy man aspire to meet these two ladies of the land. Miss Warren, at their request, draws a veil of-secrecy round their names and their exact address. “ I cannot possibly give that inlormation, as. they asked me not to,” she said last night. The farming girls were mentioned only as an example for the hundreds of bright feminine spirits who will leave school in a few days, perhaps to take up some employment. According to Miss Warren, they were both trained at the Cowra Training farm, which was established during the war to equip girls for farm work, and ceased operations in 1920 One ef them owned the station, while the other, her friend, assisted in tiie working. There was nothing the girls did not do about the farm. “They showed a credit balance,” Miss Warren said, “ but now the farm is let, and the owner is taking a holiday in Tasmania. I believe they are going back to it later,” Miss Warren was trained in farm work and is now a gardener at the Women's College.