Box-folder MS MSF SEQ 13267 BOX 4/6

Scope and contents Jenkins lives in his cottage in Maldon. He is employed by the Shire Council to clear roads and water channels and to do other odd jobs. He comments on his unsuccessful trip to Melbourne to recover a debt from a farmer; bad conduct of children at bush picnics; severe drought; bushfires and dust storms; scarcity and high cost of water and dairy products; tragic accident on the railway line near Castlemaine; burglary at his cottage; lecture tour of Mr Beavan from Wales; difficult economic...