Hessie grew up on a sugar cane farm near Ayr, North Queensland and was educated in Charters Towers. After the death of her mother in 1924, she kept house for her widower father until his death in 1937. On 12th April 1942 she married Charles Noel Schultz in Townsville. Charlie was a pastoralist, horseman, stockman, drover and owner of Humbert River Station in the Northern Territory. Hessie began to civilise the station and living conditions improved, they eventually built a new and larger homestead. Hessie brought up her two girls Donna and Betty and fostered many other children including Les Humbert who was the Northern Territory's most successful jockey in over 100 years, Larry Johns, Rosie Gordon and Roy Harrington. In 1952 she took Roger Steele under her wing for a few years. Hessie and Charlie empathised with the predicament of the Aboriginal Territorians and came to an arrangement with the Department of Native Affairs to look after and educate a number of half-caste children, many from other districts. Hessie defied the instructions to leave the station when told to evacuate during the war. She and Charlie often went to visit the soldiers camped at Victoria River Downs property or have them over to Humbert for a home cooked meal. They sold Humbert River Station in 1971 and moved to Yankalilla, South Australia where they continued their interest in race horses for many years.,
Subject
Women,
Northern Territory,
Related materials
Northern Territory. Chief Minister (1995-1999 : Stone), Speeches about Territorians : selected adjournment speeches delivered in the Northern Territory Parliament, p.49,
"Women's Territory. Cup winner is new dream for Hessie". Northern Territory News, 30 August 1974, p.11.,
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