WOMEN’S JOURNEY.
MOTORING ROUND AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY, Dec. 16.
A slight .figure, considerably sunburnt, but otherwise showing very little signs of having accomplished a feat ' unique among women, Mrs Marion Bell, accompanied by her 11-year-old daughter, arrived in Murwillumbah at 5.30 yesterday afternoon on her way round Australia by motor car. “I cannot 'remember just hoW many nights we camped out,” said Mrs Bell, but only a few. nights ago the insect pests and snakes were so troublesome that my daughter and I camped on the hood. “Right in the centre of Australia I was told that I was the first white woman they had seen for five years. “As a matter of fact, for three weeks my daughter, Marion, never saw a white woman—everywhere wo went- we were waited on by. female blacks.” Heavy rain made the roads very bad on tho trip from Southport yesterday. The car was stuck in Currumbin Creek for some time, until towed out by a horse.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 24, 28 December 1925, Page 11
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162WOMEN’S JOURNEY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 24, 28 December 1925, Page 11
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