" MAN'S MEMBER."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19453, 8 October 1926, Page 7

" MAN'S MEMBER."

MRS. JOLLIE, OF RHODESIA. Mrs. .E. Tawse Jollie, .M. L.-A., of Southern Rhodesia, tho only woman member of the visiting Empire Parliamentary delegation, was besieged by interviewers on her arrival in Sydney. j " What are the chief woman's interests you represent in Parliament?" she was asked by a lady reporter. . "But I'm not a woman's representative," laughed Mrs. Jollie, "I'm a inan : s member.'' And Mrs. Jollie is in every way a credit to her constituents. She is bright and vivacious, with shingled hair and charming manners. Spectacles or horn-riinmed glasses would be abhorrent to her. Also, she is a talented woman, which probably amounts for her husband being content to stay at home and manage his farm, while she drives or rides on horseback the 150 miles which separates their homestead from Salisbury, to attend to the affairs of the country. Mrs. Jollie has the distinction of being the first woman elected to a Dominion Parliament, English by birth, she was organiser of the Responsible Government Association, which attained its object in 1923. Southern Rhodesia may not loom large as yet in the Dominions' constellation, but* it has twice the area of Great Britain, and exceeds New Zealand by somo 45,C00 square miles. As yet, the youngest of the self-govern-ing colonies, Rhodesia is in the pioneer stage of development. This explains what Mrs. Jollie means when she describes herself as a "man's member." Outsiders whose mental pictures of Rhodesian life are drawn from novels, will be rather shocked to learn that Mrs. Jollie has no patience with one author's descriptions. "They are about as accurate," she declares, "es the 'Starlight,' stories of Rolfe Bolderwood, considered as a reflection of Australian life." Mrs. Jollie is an author herself, and one of her latest books is entitled "The Real Rhodesia."