WOMAN SQUATTERS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12643, 31 December 1926, Page 9

WOMAN SQUATTERS

12,000 ACRE RUN IN NEW ZEALAND MISS ALMA. BAKER'S PROJECT. . SYDNEY, December 24. New Zealand may look forward soon 00 the possession of a “squafteress,' l h* the person of Mia* J. Alma Baker. Her father, who .is one of the richest of Eastern , planters, and is associated in Australia with- many of the ventures of Sir Sidney Kidman, is also well known, iii New Zealand for his yearly pilgrimage there after the big ftesh. He;.haa fostered his daughter desire,, and when she reached Sydney this week on the Malabar, she had nearly six. tons of luggage and effects in New. Zealand.

It is no ioke, either, for Miss. Alma Baker has been associated with sheep and horses almost since she could walk. She.has always been fond of riding, and hns taken her turn at boundary riding in the western districts of

New South Wales. She has followed the drovers, and also holds the highest qualifications awarded .in Britain for agriculture and pastoral pursuits. She told an interviewer that the aim of her life'had always been to own a traot of land of her own, and to raise her ownstock in a large way. If her own ambition and' he rfather’s hacking are any criterion. New Zealand should see something exceptional in the way of psstdralists when she starts there.— (“Auckland Star’s” correspondent.)