A Self-sacrificing Swallow.
According to a trite myth, candidates for a fellowship at All Souls, Oxford, were given a cherry pie and judged by their degree of gentility in dealing with the stones. One year......
As Our Car Was Starting I Asked Mrs. Pickles Whether
she would like to go back to England. Her answer was loud and emphatic : "Bother England ! " We heard ft at some distance as we rounded the corner. How could she but con- trast......
Western Australia Has Been The Scene Of A Number Of
pioneer experiments, due for the most. part to the wise philosophy of Sir James Mitchell. Long ago he was good enough to take me over a number of the family farms that he set......
It Is Perhaps Not A Compliment To Our Geographic Sense
that the superabundant wealth of Western Australia has not touched the imagination of our people more nearly. Up in the north are great empty harbours, where a fleet could hide......
Personally, My Most Vivid Memory Of A Year's Tour Of
the Empire (undertaken chiefly to investigate problems of Empire migration) is of a particular farm in Western Australia. It was owned and farmed by Mr. and Mrs. Pickles of......
Country Life
LITTLE FARM EmIGRANTS. In the offices of the Western Australian Government I met last week two score of very small children, all munching very red Australian apples, with much......
The Children Live In Houses, Each Presided Over By A
matron. The home and school is part of a farm flourishing in a rich and very lovely country. Up to the age of fourteen the children remain schoolchildren, taught as other......
It May Be That This Western Australian Experimenting—or...
soon be repeated in other parts of the Empire, beginning with Canada. Those who have followed the individual career of the boys and girls who have gone out to . the Fairbridge......
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