Take a Bow, Madam
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President
Not a little of the success of this year’s Madang Agricultural Show can be attributed to Mrs.
Roma Bates (widow of the late District Commissioner C. D.
Bates), who was 1960 President —the first woman Agricultural Show president in Papua-New Guinea.
Her fresh and vigorous approach was everywhere apparent, according to a Madang correspondent, and she left noth ing to chance —especially not in the Public Relations Depart ment which worked overtime to produce a news-sheet (Show News ) that was distributed to every household in Madang and kept everyone au fait with what went on.
Let’s hope it’s the thin edge of the wedge; if a woman can run an agricultural show she can run other things, and men have had far too much to say in the Territory, anyway. What about a Women for Legco Movement?
Not for the one coming up, which will just go through the same old motions, but for Mr.
Hasluck’s this-year, next-year, sometime (or never) new fangled Legislative Council.