AN "OUTBACK" PATRIOT.
TWELVE DAYS FROM POST
OFFICE.
Evidence of the remoteness of some of the "outback" stations from civilisation was exemplified last week, by the receipt of the followng telegram at the Melbourne Age office : — "Alarming war news just received. Money a great factor m war or peace. Have, little, but wiring you herewith £10 for a war fund; which, if* not yet started, perhaps you will originate ; this , place on frontiers of 'nowhere,' but for how long? The Empire must remain intact.— C.. A. Dempsey, Boorooloola, Northern Territory, 19th August," * .
It evidently 1 took twelve days for this mesage to reach the telegraph station at Camooweal, m "■' New South Wales, and there is no doubt that the bearer of it had a hazardous . crosscountry ride. "The telegram/ remarks the Age, "speaks volumes for the patriotism of the men Who are doing pioneering work m Australia to-day. Cut off from all communication with the outside world, and • dependent for news only on the postman who pene--trates to these, lonely outposts, it needed but a, whisper of the war to induce our correspondent immediately to help m the only way it was practicable for him to give aid." ;-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13491, 21 September 1914, Page 7
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198AN "OUTBACK" PATRIOT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13491, 21 September 1914, Page 7
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