We got to know them and they got to know us, and they would say when we came in the first morning of the Show they’d say ‘How are you girls?’ and we loved that ‘girls’ bit of course. The CWA women formed close relationships with the other Show exhibitors, staff and RASV councillors, catching up and swapping news each and every year. This she did ‘every day from six o’clock in the morning until late at night’ for some forty years. Valerie first started in the kitchen helping to clear tables and clean up, but after it was discovered she had a knack for addition, she soon found her place behind the cash register. The CWA and the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria (RASV) have a long history together, with the CWA running a kitchen at the Show since the 1930s. It was not long before Valerie became a valued member of the Barnawartha CWA. And I said ‘Do you know what they do? What does the Country Women’s Association do?’ I waited and my husband came in off the farm at lunchtime and I said to him that this lady … had been there and ‘She wants to know whether I’d go to this meeting on Thursday’. A few short months after she was married in 1952, Valerie received a knock at the door and an invitation to join the inaugural Barnawartha CWA branch.
Valerie Fisher grew up in Melbourne and had never heard of the Country Women’s Association when she moved to Barnawartha as a young woman.
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