Boronia Lucy Giles (1909 - 1978) Part Two (Poems And Drawings).
This blog post is a continuation of the blog post "Boronia Giles, Journalist" published on the 20 March, 2020 and Boronia Lucy Giles (1909 - 1978) Part One. This post contains wonderful poems she wrote and drawings that were published in the children's pages in the Daily News newspapers from 1930 to 1940.
From the previous post "Boronia Lucy Giles (1909 -1978). Part One... "Boronia Lucy (Bonnie) Giles was born on 25 August 1909 at Collie in Western Australia. Boronia and her family moved around due to her father's employment. As a consequence she was educated at various state schools including Subiaco State School. In 1922 Boronia won a scholarship to Perth Modern School where studied for four years.
In 1927 Boronia enrolled part time at the University of Western Australia while working for a motorcar company. The following year she obtained a cadetship at the Daily News newspaper and began at Diploma of Journalism in 1929. On the 30 December 1932 she married Robert Giles, also a journalist. Together they had five children. Due to family commitments and work she failed to complete her diploma.
Boronia used several pseudonyms while working at the Daily News newspaper. These included 'Peg Peggoty' and 'Mary Ferber'. She wrote a range of regular columns on various subjects. During the 1930s Boronia edited the children's section and included her own poems, short stories and drawings in the column. They were on topics all children could relate too.
During her life Boronia worked for a number charitable causes. These included being appointed to the State's Health Education Council and for ten years she edited 'Our Children' the magazine of the Slow Learning Children's Group. She was also a member of the Investigating Committee on Left-School Youth which considered the problems and future of young people. She addressed women's clubs on a range of topics.
Boronia Giles retired from journalism in 1969. She died on 2 May 1978. "
References
Ryan, J. 1996, Giles, Boronia Lucy (Bonnie) (1908 - 1978) Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
The Australian Women's Register Giles, Boronia Lucy (Bonnie) (1909 - 1978).
The poems and drawings are from Trove the database of the National Library Australia. No copyright infringement intended.
Daily News, 5 September 1931.
Daily News, 22 August 1931.
Daily News, 27 November 1935.
Daily News, 13 March 1937.
