THE MEN OF THE NORTH.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 18 May 1929, Page 21

THE MEN OF THE NORTH.

MADE OF THE OLD PIONKB* ING STUFF. WHAT LORD APSLBY WROT* (nox ova spsciax. ammmnn.) CANBERRA, Mfc? 4. In 1926 a book was published rHk the title "The Amateur Settlers." » , was written by Lord and Lady Apslej.. f Lord Apsley, as many will remember came out to .Australia incog., and «sw a view to acquainting himself farthand with the conditions obtanrfflg litre, worked as a farm hand at varhMp ■ places in this country, finally on a "group settlement" in_ ffwWi Australia, where he was joined <9 Lady Apsley. Incidentally, they tool* neyed om a largi portion of the Iw' them Territory, ana in the bode tMf subsequently wrote they have suun thing to say about Mr Moray, •accompanied Flight-Lie utenant Eat in til# other 'lay from Wave Hill to the where the bodies of Keith AadMiM and Hitchcock lay near the aeropl*m in which they had set oat in search « Kingsford Smith and the' crew of tM Southern Cross. It is worth reading again, as showing the stuff of which the men of the Far North are made. "We stopped a night each at Ma** garet station, Mr Scott's hotel at roy Craning, famous the length an breadth of the nor'-west, and at «• sheep station on Nucambsr, where » - said good-bye to our dear friend Mf Moray, who had come with us thus far, as one of the hired cars had broke* down, and as faithful and indomiUMl 'Betty' was the most comfortable «W----veyance for Lady Leigh ton (who DM been thrown from a hofse and had her arm broken). Mr Mo-ay had beeni« of the kindest of hosts, best of companions, and mast l arresting ci guides. He is one eorapanv of true lovers of North Australia, and in his pos.taon as chief pastel*! inspector of the cattle stations controlled by the Vestey companies. is mbebly doing m»*» for its actual •»«- opment than ony other nan in the Territory. . . . "For the last nine years lie has travelled thousands of mile every tea# through the bush, going hj» round* tar camel, horse. > and—latterlj—-by car. A tall, strong, athletic, fair-haired quietvoiced Australian, he came from Scotland when his parents died 00 year* ago—which one finds difficult to believe, as he can tire out most of the younger men in the yard or the saddle, and has not a single grey hair. Nothing i 3 too hard or too difficult for this kind of Australian, who is made up of the old pioneering stuff, added to the modern scientific, caleulafchm D.ind. "He puts down bores in the desert, transporting the material in piece* thousands of miles by sea and hundreds of miles by land, probably to find oh assembling that the manufacturers have supplied a 1922 model shaft to the 1923 coupling. Months must elapse before the fault can be rectified, the wet season will have started, and bo waggons can get there. A delay may mean the k« of thousands of cattle, but, nothing daunted, he will pcafeiUf take a piece (nit of an old and make do somehow. Hia is dw - of spirit that haa Wl the Nailljtfii Territory together at tfee tfen* «tip the price of meat doecnH pay fo#4a» labour of keeping the eatth, aad was as interesting for as to see r the scenes something of git ideas of