Found His Tin
Billy Moore, half-caste head stockman on Mainoru Station, North Australia, was mustering cattle in Arnhem Land when the Wilton River rose after heavy rain. His pack-saddle was on a horse and in the pack was an old tobacco tin. The horse was attacked by a crocodile, and in trying to get away was drowned and washed away. For two days Billy searched but had no luck.
Billy took the cattle to Mataranka and returned to the Wilton with natives 10 days later. They were walking along the bank when a lubra spotted a branding iron sticking up in midstream.
The branding iron was attached to Billy’s pack saddle, but the pack saddle was not attached to the horse. The crocodiles had seen to that. In the pack was Billy’s old tobacco tin, and in the tin his savings—£lso.
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Northern Advocate, 8 September 1947, Page 5
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141Found His Tin Northern Advocate, 8 September 1947, Page 5
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