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.

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

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

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.

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.

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

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