A good deal (says the Opotiki Guardian) has been said regarding the stamina of the English-bred as against the colonialbred girls. Countless illustrations may be given proving that the colonial girl, even though she may not excel her sister from. the Motherland, can hold her own. This view is emphasised in connection -with back block settlement in the Dominion. The journey from Gisborne on horseback, a distance of 111? miles, is a, formidable one for a man. Yet this lias been repeatedly accomplished by women and girls. Lately seven or eight, women arrived from Gisborne, having accomplished the journey in two days, and next morning left for a 25-mile ride up the Waioeku Valley to visit relatives who have taken up sections in the back country. Asked if they had not found the journey very tiring, they replied: "Not at all; and we intend to go back for the show."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13709, 27 March 1908, Page 6
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