[“Mainly About People”, Daily News (Perth, WA), Saturday 20 August 1904, page 1]
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An article on the “Trans-Australian Railway,” by Mrs. Daisy M. Bates appears in the June number of “Public Works,” a paper conducted by the editor of the “Survevor and Municipal and Country Engineer,” London, E.C. Mrs. Bates appears in good company, other writers in the same number being Sir William Willcox, K.C.M.G., M.I.C.E; John Watson, A.M.I.C.E., Leonard L. Robinson, M.I.E.E., A.M.I.M.E.; and others. Mrs. Bates’s article is splendidly illustrated, showing the possible route of the railway and a map of the proposed railway from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta. That scientific men are tardy in their acknowledgment of a woman’s skill in matters requiring scientific knowledge and skill, however, is demonstrated, because the feminine pronoun referring to Mrs. Bates in the article is invariably changed to the masculine, and only the initials of Mrs. Bates’s name were used in acknowledging its authorship.
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