. 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 . ot the is proved by the records of the immenseamount of produce sent from the railway stations. During the nine mouthsof the 1914-15 drought this part of the State has proved its worth in theway it carried, besides its own stock, the thou,sands
. 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 . ot the is proved by the records of the immenseamount of produce sent from the railway stations. During the nine mouthsof the 1914-15 drought this part of the State has proved its worth in theway it carried, besides its own stock, the thou,sands of cattle, horse.« and sheepsent from the North. While doing this, and liolding its own. it came to therescue of the city milk supply, while the Western district failed, and lost 60per cent, of its dairv cattle from starvation. Potatoes, onions, supplies ofbutter and trucks of fat pigs were- sent away m great quantities, while inthe abnormal .scarcity of beef and nmtton Gippsland supplied a f)ropor-tion of the best quality of fats in the Newmarket yards. This rich. wealth-j)roducing piovince of Aictoi-ia is ihe gift of thepioneers to theii- country; opeiKd up. cleared, and developed to its presentstate b\- thcif own effoi-t>. without the assistance or moiictaiv aid of theGovernment. Recollections and Experiences. MR. J. HALFORD. Like most of the early settlers in South (xipps-Innd. my brother and self secured our blocks be-yond the last settler. The dates of the settlement ofpioneers can. be traced in this way. In no , had been allowed for some timeon account of coal rescn^ationi?, and the farthestselection South was the Mes^srs. Rainbow andWilliams, but in 1885 land was a^ain thrownopen for selection. It was through Mr. A. W. Elmsthat we got to know of Kongwak. He had alreadysettled in Jumbunna East, and his hospitality (asof all the early pioneers) was proverbial and ex-ceedmgly helpful. It is one thing the pioneers ofthis part of the State may w
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