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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12395, 15 March 1926, Page 11

It is interesting to note that tho Hard Case mine, near Malcelm (W.A.), was to called from a woman who mined there (the "hard case”), working under exactly the same conditions ns tho other miners. Lightning Ridge, N.S.W., also had its woman opal miner; she mndo .£726 on on© find, and thou went back to start a business in .Sydney. Queensland nlso possesses n woman stockrider, who had a farm nt Warwick, but took up droving when it failed in 1919. She recently took a mob of 2000 bullocks from killnrney (Q ) to Wnllnngarra, on tho border. Another cornstalk, Mary Lynch, won the last wood-chopping contest at Nnnago against nil men onHer sister. Maggie, is ulso a champion wood-chopper. Mrs S. A. Whiteman is the only woman-trader in Papua. She say she enjoys tho life and finds the work profitable. Most people know of Mrs Banfield’s life on her husband's tropic isle; and of Beatrice Grimshavf's adventurous life in Papua in tsourcU of copy for , her Pacific novels.