FOOTNOTES

FOOTNOTES1A genus named after a nurseryman who introduced these Australian plants into London.2On the goldfields the grant is £8 10s. per each child and the teacher’s income £40.3A summary of the history of Western Australian Educational Development will be found in the State Handbook, contributed by the Hon. Walter Kingsmill, formerly Minister for Education.4From the Federal Handbook to Australia, p. 204.5“Ringbarking” is effected by cutting away an encircling strip or ring of bark round the trunk and so slowly killing the tree.6See Federal Handbook for this question, pp. 171, 414.7Federal Handbook, pp. 445–53.8Federal Handbook, p. 173.9“Army Review,” Vol. IV., January, 1913.10“Times,” January 28, 1915.11Ladies are not admitted to the Melbourne Club.12Dr. J. W. Barrett,C.M.G.,M.D., in the “Handbook to Victoria.”13See Mr. H. M. Murphy, Chief Inspector of Factories, on the “Victorian Labour Laws,” “Handbook to Victoria,” p. 203.14H. M. Murphy.15“Handbook to Victoria,” p. 40.16“Handbook to Victoria,” p. 42.17In the “Half-time” school the teacher divides his time between two centres.18See “Sheep and Wool for the Farmer,” Part I., J. Wrenford Matthews. Published by the Department of Agriculture, N.S. Wales.19For details of this system see “Wheat in New South Wales,” by G. L. Sutton, Tourist Bureau, Sydney.20“Farming on the Shares System,” Government Tourist Bureau, Sydney.21In reference to the vast amount of sand in West Australia, the West Australians are called “Sand-gropers.” Life was hard in early South Australia, and hence the South Australians remain “Crow-eaters”: Victorians, proud of their giant gum trees in Gippsland, are called “Gum-suckers,” and only the New South Wales people are genuine “Cornstalks.”22W. Harrison Moore, Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne.23“Flora of the South Coast,” “Handbook to New South Wales,” p. 395.24There has been considerable difference of opinion among writers on the early history of Australia, as to whether Captain Cook did or did not name the whole of this district New South Wales. It is true that the name New South Wales does not appear in Cook’s journals, and Bladen, editor of the “Historical Record of New South Wales,” says that “the name appears to have originated with Hawkesworth,” who edited “Cook’s Voyages.” Kitson, however, cites a letter written by Cook, 1771 (“Life of Cook,” p. 149), in which the words occur, “The east coast of New Holland, or what I call ‘New South Wales.’” Hawkesworth therefore did obtain the name from Cook.25Mrs. Æneas Gunn, “We of the Never Never.”26An account of this interesting trial has been brilliantly given in “An Untamed Territory,” Macmillan and Co., by Miss Elsie Masson.27In Malay called tripang.

FOOTNOTES1A genus named after a nurseryman who introduced these Australian plants into London.2On the goldfields the grant is £8 10s. per each child and the teacher’s income £40.3A summary of the history of Western Australian Educational Development will be found in the State Handbook, contributed by the Hon. Walter Kingsmill, formerly Minister for Education.4From the Federal Handbook to Australia, p. 204.5“Ringbarking” is effected by cutting away an encircling strip or ring of bark round the trunk and so slowly killing the tree.6See Federal Handbook for this question, pp. 171, 414.7Federal Handbook, pp. 445–53.8Federal Handbook, p. 173.9“Army Review,” Vol. IV., January, 1913.10“Times,” January 28, 1915.11Ladies are not admitted to the Melbourne Club.12Dr. J. W. Barrett,C.M.G.,M.D., in the “Handbook to Victoria.”13See Mr. H. M. Murphy, Chief Inspector of Factories, on the “Victorian Labour Laws,” “Handbook to Victoria,” p. 203.14H. M. Murphy.15“Handbook to Victoria,” p. 40.16“Handbook to Victoria,” p. 42.17In the “Half-time” school the teacher divides his time between two centres.18See “Sheep and Wool for the Farmer,” Part I., J. Wrenford Matthews. Published by the Department of Agriculture, N.S. Wales.19For details of this system see “Wheat in New South Wales,” by G. L. Sutton, Tourist Bureau, Sydney.20“Farming on the Shares System,” Government Tourist Bureau, Sydney.21In reference to the vast amount of sand in West Australia, the West Australians are called “Sand-gropers.” Life was hard in early South Australia, and hence the South Australians remain “Crow-eaters”: Victorians, proud of their giant gum trees in Gippsland, are called “Gum-suckers,” and only the New South Wales people are genuine “Cornstalks.”22W. Harrison Moore, Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne.23“Flora of the South Coast,” “Handbook to New South Wales,” p. 395.24There has been considerable difference of opinion among writers on the early history of Australia, as to whether Captain Cook did or did not name the whole of this district New South Wales. It is true that the name New South Wales does not appear in Cook’s journals, and Bladen, editor of the “Historical Record of New South Wales,” says that “the name appears to have originated with Hawkesworth,” who edited “Cook’s Voyages.” Kitson, however, cites a letter written by Cook, 1771 (“Life of Cook,” p. 149), in which the words occur, “The east coast of New Holland, or what I call ‘New South Wales.’” Hawkesworth therefore did obtain the name from Cook.25Mrs. Æneas Gunn, “We of the Never Never.”26An account of this interesting trial has been brilliantly given in “An Untamed Territory,” Macmillan and Co., by Miss Elsie Masson.27In Malay called tripang.

1A genus named after a nurseryman who introduced these Australian plants into London.

1A genus named after a nurseryman who introduced these Australian plants into London.

2On the goldfields the grant is £8 10s. per each child and the teacher’s income £40.

2On the goldfields the grant is £8 10s. per each child and the teacher’s income £40.

3A summary of the history of Western Australian Educational Development will be found in the State Handbook, contributed by the Hon. Walter Kingsmill, formerly Minister for Education.

3A summary of the history of Western Australian Educational Development will be found in the State Handbook, contributed by the Hon. Walter Kingsmill, formerly Minister for Education.

4From the Federal Handbook to Australia, p. 204.

4From the Federal Handbook to Australia, p. 204.

5“Ringbarking” is effected by cutting away an encircling strip or ring of bark round the trunk and so slowly killing the tree.

5“Ringbarking” is effected by cutting away an encircling strip or ring of bark round the trunk and so slowly killing the tree.

6See Federal Handbook for this question, pp. 171, 414.

6See Federal Handbook for this question, pp. 171, 414.

7Federal Handbook, pp. 445–53.

7Federal Handbook, pp. 445–53.

8Federal Handbook, p. 173.

8Federal Handbook, p. 173.

9“Army Review,” Vol. IV., January, 1913.

9“Army Review,” Vol. IV., January, 1913.

10“Times,” January 28, 1915.

10“Times,” January 28, 1915.

11Ladies are not admitted to the Melbourne Club.

11Ladies are not admitted to the Melbourne Club.

12Dr. J. W. Barrett,C.M.G.,M.D., in the “Handbook to Victoria.”

12Dr. J. W. Barrett,C.M.G.,M.D., in the “Handbook to Victoria.”

13See Mr. H. M. Murphy, Chief Inspector of Factories, on the “Victorian Labour Laws,” “Handbook to Victoria,” p. 203.

13See Mr. H. M. Murphy, Chief Inspector of Factories, on the “Victorian Labour Laws,” “Handbook to Victoria,” p. 203.

14H. M. Murphy.

14H. M. Murphy.

15“Handbook to Victoria,” p. 40.

15“Handbook to Victoria,” p. 40.

16“Handbook to Victoria,” p. 42.

16“Handbook to Victoria,” p. 42.

17In the “Half-time” school the teacher divides his time between two centres.

17In the “Half-time” school the teacher divides his time between two centres.

18See “Sheep and Wool for the Farmer,” Part I., J. Wrenford Matthews. Published by the Department of Agriculture, N.S. Wales.

18See “Sheep and Wool for the Farmer,” Part I., J. Wrenford Matthews. Published by the Department of Agriculture, N.S. Wales.

19For details of this system see “Wheat in New South Wales,” by G. L. Sutton, Tourist Bureau, Sydney.

19For details of this system see “Wheat in New South Wales,” by G. L. Sutton, Tourist Bureau, Sydney.

20“Farming on the Shares System,” Government Tourist Bureau, Sydney.

20“Farming on the Shares System,” Government Tourist Bureau, Sydney.

21In reference to the vast amount of sand in West Australia, the West Australians are called “Sand-gropers.” Life was hard in early South Australia, and hence the South Australians remain “Crow-eaters”: Victorians, proud of their giant gum trees in Gippsland, are called “Gum-suckers,” and only the New South Wales people are genuine “Cornstalks.”

21In reference to the vast amount of sand in West Australia, the West Australians are called “Sand-gropers.” Life was hard in early South Australia, and hence the South Australians remain “Crow-eaters”: Victorians, proud of their giant gum trees in Gippsland, are called “Gum-suckers,” and only the New South Wales people are genuine “Cornstalks.”

22W. Harrison Moore, Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne.

22W. Harrison Moore, Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne.

23“Flora of the South Coast,” “Handbook to New South Wales,” p. 395.

23“Flora of the South Coast,” “Handbook to New South Wales,” p. 395.

24There has been considerable difference of opinion among writers on the early history of Australia, as to whether Captain Cook did or did not name the whole of this district New South Wales. It is true that the name New South Wales does not appear in Cook’s journals, and Bladen, editor of the “Historical Record of New South Wales,” says that “the name appears to have originated with Hawkesworth,” who edited “Cook’s Voyages.” Kitson, however, cites a letter written by Cook, 1771 (“Life of Cook,” p. 149), in which the words occur, “The east coast of New Holland, or what I call ‘New South Wales.’” Hawkesworth therefore did obtain the name from Cook.

24There has been considerable difference of opinion among writers on the early history of Australia, as to whether Captain Cook did or did not name the whole of this district New South Wales. It is true that the name New South Wales does not appear in Cook’s journals, and Bladen, editor of the “Historical Record of New South Wales,” says that “the name appears to have originated with Hawkesworth,” who edited “Cook’s Voyages.” Kitson, however, cites a letter written by Cook, 1771 (“Life of Cook,” p. 149), in which the words occur, “The east coast of New Holland, or what I call ‘New South Wales.’” Hawkesworth therefore did obtain the name from Cook.

25Mrs. Æneas Gunn, “We of the Never Never.”

25Mrs. Æneas Gunn, “We of the Never Never.”

26An account of this interesting trial has been brilliantly given in “An Untamed Territory,” Macmillan and Co., by Miss Elsie Masson.

26An account of this interesting trial has been brilliantly given in “An Untamed Territory,” Macmillan and Co., by Miss Elsie Masson.

27In Malay called tripang.

27In Malay called tripang.

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