Former CWA Cottage, now Terowie Information Centre, South Australia

            The foundation stone of the Terowie C.W.A. building, erected in memory of pioneer women, was laid by Mrs. I. J. Warnes (State president) last week. Those present included Mr. Hawker, M.H.R., and Mr. Jenkins, M.P., who spoke for pioneers, and the Chief Secretary (Sir George Ritchie), who congratulated the branch and stressed the social service side of the movement. He appealed to the younger generation to show the pioneer spirit. 
Ref: Chronicle (Adelaide) 10-2-1938

Mary Jane Warnes (nee Fairbrother) MBE

On 12 February 1900 at St Augustine's Church, Unley, she married Isaac James Warnes. They lived at Koomooloo, an isolated property in the arid north-east of the State. Only infrequently did they make the eighty-mile (129 km) round trip by horse and buggy to Burra, the nearest town. Mary later recalled going into shops to buy unnecessary trifles as an excuse to speak with other women. After her sister Deborah married Isaac's brother, and came to live only seven miles (11 km) distant, the sisters bicycled along bush tracks once a week to meet half-way for the pleasure of company; but, within two years, Deborah's death in childbirth left Mary again 'marooned on an island of men'.
In 1926 the National Council of Women called an informal meeting in Adelaide which Mrs Warnes attended. She was by then living at Wahroonga, some twelve miles (19 km) from Burra. On her return from Adelaide, she immediately invited women from the eleven local districts to form the Burra Women's Service Association. Founded in November 1926, it was the first of three hundred State branches of the Country Women's Association. President of the Burra branch, Mary was prominent in the establishment of the C.W.A.'s metropolitan branch in Adelaide and was State president 1929-41.
In 1929 she was a delegate to the Rural Women's Conference, London, held under the auspices of the International Council of Women, which moved towards creating the Associated Country Women of the World; by 1986 sixty-two nations belonged to the A.C.W.W. As the wife of 'one of the best-known pastoralists in the State', Mrs Warnes travelled extensively at home and abroad, and took an active interest in the family's sheep-holdings, of which she was a director. Cultured, tall and dignified, but gentle and kind, she gave and received great affection. In addition to making a special study of the conditions of country women and children, she was a councillor and president of the women's branch of the State Liberal Federation and of its Burra branch, president of the Leighton Women's Guild, a member of the National Council of Women of South Australia and of the League of Nations Union, and State country representative of the Victoria League. In 1936 she was appointed M.B.E.
In 1986 she was allocated a plaque on the North Terrace pavement, Adelaide, which commemorates leading figures in South Australia.
Ref: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 12 (MUP) 1990.

   

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