Patrol By Camel and Buggy
Mounted Constable Max Holmes is stationed at Marree, a Central Australian cattle town. He belongs to the South Australian Mounted Police, a force as distinctive and individual as the much-celebrated Canadian Mounties. His “beat” covers 40,000 square miles around the Lake Eyre Basin and at least once a year he makes a camel patrol over the level, unending plains, paying special attention to the Birdsville Track. Down this 330-mile track drovers travel their cattle from Western Queensland and the Northern Territory to the railhead at Marree. Mounted Constable Holmes is seen preparing to leave with his camels and buggy on a patrol along the Birdsville Track. Holding the camel’s heads are one of his black trackers and a boundary rider.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27040, 26 March 1949, Page 8
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125Patrol By Camel and Buggy Otago Daily Times, Issue 27040, 26 March 1949, Page 8
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