YOUNG, Mayse
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Also known as: née Dowling
Born: 1913
Died: 2006
Special Achievements:1963 - First woman to be elected as president of a Race Club (Pine Creek).
1994 - Medal of the Order of Australia.
2003 - A recipient of the Tribute to Northern Territory.
Mayse ran the Pine Creek Hotel until the 1950s when she and her family moved to Katherine and invested in the Commercial Hotel. They also invested in pastoral land including the cattle station, Birrindudu.
Mayse became the President of the Red Cross Society and worked as a volunteer with many other organizations.
Mayse's life story is told in her book No Place For a Woman (1994).