Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.
My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.
A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.
There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life
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.
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.