It is a very easy going place. No hurry and no bustle. Everyone is known to everyone else. The bus drivers say �Good Morning Mrs so and so��, calling them by name. There are only a few buses here, and the fare is very expensive. It is a private firm and they have to give up to the Government 4d out of every fare. Even the buses don�t hurry. I have yet to see one going at any speed.
There are three schools. One is the infant school, which ranges from six years to about ten. Then the next from ten to about twelve and then the State High School where all the children go to finish off. Following that they can go for a free scholarship to the Perth University.
The young people here live a grand outdoor life. I believe in the summertime they have a barbecue. That is, they go into the Bush (a whole crowd of them), light a big fire then bring out their billy and brew up. Then they each produce the eats � a juicy steak, a pound of sausages or chops which are stuck on the end of a stick which they just pick up from anywhere and put it into the fire. When they come out black then they are done enough, and I am told they taste gorgeous, I have yet to try it for myself. |
