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MISS JESSIE AKERMANN, F.R.S.G.S.
Photograph by May Moore, Sydney.
Frontispiece ‘Australia from a woman’s point of view’

The social reformer Jessie Akermann (1857-1951) arrived in Wellington, New Zealand from Sydney aboard the Wimmera on Thursday 17 October 1907.