After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.