She and Tessa Fowler were the first women elected to the New Hebrides Representative Assembly, serving from 1975 to 1977.
After working as a staff nurse for the British Solomon Islands government,[1] Gilu attended the SPC Community Education Training Centre, graduating in 1965.
[2] She subsequently became an assistant women's interests officer in Honiara,[3] She later married Francis Gilu, a vicar,[4] and moved to the New Hebrides.
[2] She became a member of the New Hebrides National Party and contested the Santo Town constituency in the November 1975 elections.
[5][6] An appeal to Joint Court in July was unsuccessful, but Gilu was re-elected in the by-elections on 25 October, increasing her majority.