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First Australian Female Observers
No. 235 June/July 1976, Item 2943Our bottom back page pic shows with DIR Australia's first two female weather observers to be trained since the WAAF days of World War II. The girls, Maree Allen, 22 (right) and Ailsa Brady, 24, finished the 13-week advanced observers course at the A'Beckett Street training school. With the five other course graduates, including two from Papua New Guinea, they received their certificates from DIR. Weather observer courses have been held in Australia since 1946. The two girls studied the operation of radiosonde, radar electronic equipment and associated computations during their course. Maree has been posted to RO WA and Ailsa to RO Qld. The two Papua New Guineans, Andrew Salatum and Pochalon Kametan, said the knowledge they had gained in Australia would help them as weather observers for the PNG National Weather Service. Others in the course included A. Stevens and R. McFarlane.
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