Lae's Human
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Dynamo
Mrs. Mary Strachan of L: New Guinea, is one of the human dynamo’s of high me: holism who thrive on wo?
SOME women thrive and bio* in the hot-house climate of Territory, despite the loss perspiration, while others are ener ted.
But I suspect that Mary wo( thrive even amongst the Esquimat She was born in March, 1917, Mary Caroline O’Brien, in Temo NSW, one of a large family.
She won a teacher’s scholars? at the end of her high school couj did one year at Sydney Univerr and then switched to nursing at Royal Alexandra Hospital, Sydne She then nursed in Queenslai NSW, Victoria and the North Territory. After the war she gave; nursing and started a dressmakl business in Sydney, In June, 19 she married Arthur Strachan, af he was demobilised from the RA son Anthony, was born in Sydney In March. 1949, the family In ferred to Lae, where Arthur employed by Bulolo Gold Dredg Ltd. He later transferred to Bui Philp at Lae, where he is the shipp manager. Two sons, Timothy Garth, were born in Lae. In 19 Mary opened a women’s dress sH Apart from her family and bd ness activities, her main interestsa in the Red Cross, the Dramn Society and floral art. —Brett Hil\
A Brett Milder Profile