The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.

I look back to a happy childhood.

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society in the land of our adoption.

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.

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

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.

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.