ABSTRACT
Society that the Committee had helped by a capital grant. As such, it could lead to criticism and public feeling against using National Relief Funds for Overseas Settlement to educate orphans outside Britain. Should the Western Australian Government hesitate to accept the offer it might be withdrawn. 12
I remember the day on which we went with Roy, a son of Mr William Paterson the owner, to look over the property. We followed the river up until we came to the crest of a gravel ridge. Here we stopped and Kingsley said, 'This will do for my farm school.' The jarrahs were closely grouped just here, and I must admit my heart grew faint at the thought of the herculean dimension of the clearing necessary before the smallest space could be made on which to start building. 'The cottages shall run in that direction', he continued pointing, 'for there the drainage is naturally good so that no water shall ever lie about them. The school must be over there on the second side of the square; the office there beside the gate, and it must have windows on all sides so that check can be kept on everything that goes in and out of the farm. Then comes the store not far off, and alongside it the kitchen. Our house shall be here,' he pulls me forward excitedly, 'and from here you can see the stables on the south side of it, so that I can see what is going on in the early morning and hear if anything is wrong at night. What do you think of it? Will it do? Are you going to like it?'30
