Thread: Clark & Tait properties all sold.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Do you know how Donors Hill got its name? It always seemed odd to me that it is pronounced Donna's Hill.
I was heading south, late one night, near the jump-up, towing three empy petrol tankers. Suddenly it became daylight. A meteorite passed about twenty feet above me! It was reported from Doomage to Dajara.

Very deceiving just how high those things are. I was on an outback station in WA many years ago when a similar thing happened one night.
Brilliant light and a roaring noise as it went over. For a few seconds I really thought that it was an aircraft on fire about to crash. The next day it was reported that it actually landed several hundred Kms away from where I was!

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Imagine how peeved the milko would have been, after jogging a hundred miles up the front yard, to find a note "1 extra pint please."

OR, "No Milk today thank you, visitors brought some extra."

Originally Posted by 4bee

OR, "No Milk today thank you, visitors brought some extra."

That at least would save a return trot.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

That at least would save a return trot.

Unless the Milky came at 2 am, wouldn't the milk be on the bugle a bit later?

Some great video there Old Farang; that Rotinoff, ‘Julie’ , I have driven around the yard, and ‘Juliet’ is under the peppercorn.

well I think that is how it was🤭

dave

Originally Posted by V8Ian

That's an iconic picture. Forty-eight decks, how many k is that?

Think our farrier worked there??..when they did a muster like that..thousands of bullocks he said weighing up to a ton. ..and dozens of trucks

Might have been elsewhere tho..property owned by Holmes a Court he said...

I reckon they are all double decks Ian, so 96 decks, and I seem to think 20 bullocks per deck/ k wagon.

My father in law was Buntine ‘s right hand man , but sadly not in contact just now.

I have a request. You mob sound like the people who could help . Just after the War, 1947, Mum & Dad moved west into what was half a lifetime of working on properties around QLD. I came along in 1948, so my memory of the times is restricted to the latter part of their journey. Before Mum Passed on, I asked her to write down the properties they lived/ worked on, with the intention of going back , to have a look at our history, first hand. They are just two pieces of writing paper with what looks like chook scratchings on them, but they are precious to me, a link to the past. Some one might know if these places are still around, remembering my dear old Mum was 90 when she wrote it, so I can't vouch too much for the accuracy.

First up is a property 60 miles or there abouts from Quilpie, MT [?] Comogian, very big Mum said. She was housemaid , Dad worked the cattle. Then came Valeri [?] near Charleville, Rupe Williams was the owner, a mean man Mum said, wouldn't give them any eggs sold them all in town. I wouldn't have liked to be Rupe if Mum came across him in the after life. Then on to Summer Hills, near Hughenden I think. That is the place where I have my first memories , I recall a massive flood. Dad had to saddle the horse & pack horse & cross a couple of creeks and a river to get provisions, as all we had left was some scones, and the bloody cat ate those. Mum had to sweep the snakes off our low verandah when they tried to shelter there. Then on to Ilfracombe, [ no property name] then on to Dunrobin near Longreach Mum writes, nice place, she adds. The last property mentioned is Somerset Downs, no location mentioned. Any info would be well received. I've thought about contacting the Longreach Stockmans Hall of Fame, Im thinking they would have properties and even perhaps workers names listed. Thanks in advance.Cheers.