Ruth Beatrice Fairfax was a founding member of the Australian Country Women's Association and the first President of the Queensland Country Women's Association. The federal electorate of Fairfax is named in her honour.
Ruth Fairfax Chapel, Potts Point, Sydney
Ruth Fairfax's former house, Elaine, at Seven Shillings Beach, Double Bay
Fundrasing in aid of the Toowoomba Soldiers' Sock and Comforts Fund, during World War I. The photograph shows Mrs Fairfax's novelty stall.
Country Women's Association
The Country Women's Association (CWA) is a women's organisation in Australia, which seeks to advances interests of women, families, and communities in Australia, especially those in rural, regional, and remote areas.
CWA building at Bungendore, New South Wales
Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, 1928
CWA group meeting in Emerald, 1939
Country Women's Association of New South Wales meeting, ca. 1940