Pioneer teacher was one of the girls

By Dot Wickham
Updated November 5 2012 - 9:38am, first published March 9 2003 - 12:08am

MATILDA Dixie's teaching career began with much excitement in tent schools on the goldfields when a strong gale in September, 1854, blew the rotten tent away.

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