Representative

NG Has Women Representative at Mining Congress

OFF on more international travels, in early September, was Mrs. Doris Booth, of “Cliffside”, 3ulolo, New Guinea, who was jound for Canada.

In Canada, Mrs. Booth will at tend the sixth Commonwealth

Mining and Metallurgical Congress —one of the few women to do so.

However, she is used to being a female trail-blazer. She was one of the first people on the Wau goldfields in the 20’s and has been associated with goldmining ever since—without sacrificing any of her femineity by doing a man-sized job.

Mrs. Booth has been the mining representative on the Papua-New Guinea Legislative Council since the Council’s inception, but she in timated some months ago that she

would not be available for nomina tion to the new council formed this month. (See elsewhere.)