[2] It was at the invitation of John Winthrop Hackett that Chase became "Aunt Mary" on his Western Mail newspaper.

Chase first proposed the idea of silver chain in "Aunt Mary's Children's Corner" in the Western Mail on 3 June 1905.

[3] She suggested that her "nieces and nephews" made "silver links" of service to help poorer children in Western Australia.

The children paid an annual subscription of a shilling and this funded Christmas presents that year.

[1] In 1912, Gertrude Mead, who was the third Western Australian woman doctor, joined the committee of the Silver Chain Nursing League[5] and suggested that older people could live in cottage homes.