. The Land of the Lyre bird; a story of early settlement in the great forest of south Gippsland. Being a description of the Big Scrub in its virgin state with its birds and animals, and of the adventures and hardship of its early explorers and prospectors; also accounts by the settlers of the clearing, settlement, and development of the country . Recollections and MR. W. McKENZIE McHARG. About the year 1883 I packed my portmanteau^left my j^arents home, and made a direct line forLancefield railway station. There I booked to ^lel-bonrne. and from there to Dronin. where I met someo
. The Land of the Lyre bird; a story of early settlement in the great forest of south Gippsland. Being a description of the Big Scrub in its virgin state with its birds and animals, and of the adventures and hardship of its early explorers and prospectors; also accounts by the settlers of the clearing, settlement, and development of the country . Recollections and MR. W. McKENZIE McHARG. About the year 1883 I packed my portmanteau^left my j^arents home, and made a direct line forLancefield railway station. There I booked to ^lel-bonrne. and from there to Dronin. where I met someold acquaintances, wlio piloted me through to Poo-wong-. and from there to Jumbunna East, the parishin which I selected a half section of maiden scrub-land. I was present at the progress meeting heldin the district which changed the postal name fiomJumbunna East to Moyarra. It was at my liouse that the first meeting ofthe Korumburra to Andersons Inlet Railway Leaguetook place, and it was decided at that meetiug toask Mr. M. W. Elliott to convene a puljlic meeting,which was advertised in the Drouin papers to l>e heldat ]Mr. A. W. P^lms* house. The meeting was largelyattended, and it was decided to .send a deputationto the Minister of Railways and ask for a surveyMR H C- • through Jumbunna to the coast. I had the honour of being in that deputation, and the late Mr. W.
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