Things Over
p. 142 · Read in the full issue
Papuan Girls Look Things Over
It is not only Papuan and New Guinea men who are having free, escorted tours of Australia, The girls got a turn, in Sep tember, when 10 Papuan women school-teachers toured Queens land.
As the Brisbane newspapers exuberantly put it, five of them were "peroxide blondes’.
On theft- 22-day trip, to see how things are done in the South, the girls are the guests of the Queensland Chamber of Manufactures. They are in charge of Miss Agnes Neal, of the New Guinea Department of Education.
The girls visited schools, baby clinics, clothing factories and so forth—but unlike the Tolai trippers (PIM, September, p. 123), no lawn-mower factories.
Which is probably short sighted of the Chamber of Manu factures. Who said lawn-mower pushing wasn't women’s work?