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PLOWMAN, ELSIE MAY (1905-1978), hotelier, was born on 13 November 1905 at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, only daughter of James Samuel Paxton, an English-born contractor, and his wife Elizabeth Josephine, née McIntyre, who came from Victoria. Elsie was sent to the Coolgardie convent school, where she was reputedly reprimanded for ringing the Angelus bell on Armistice Day, 1918. After her family moved to Perth she attended Loreto Convent, Claremont. In 1924 she gained a diploma in book-keeping at Stott's Business College. By 1921 her parents were managing the Esplanade Hotel on the Swan River foreshore. That year, during a long-running strike by the hotel's barmaids and caterers over the employment of Chinese waiters, she witnessed a spirited clash between her mother and the trade-union secretary Cecilia Shelley.

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