FOOTNOTES
[1] A genus named after a nurseryman who introduced these Australian plants into London.
[2] On the goldfields the grant is £8 10s. per each child and the teacher’s income £40.
[3] A 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.
[4] From 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.
[6] See Federal Handbook for this question, pp. 171, 414.
[7] Federal Handbook, pp. 445–53.
[8] Federal Handbook, p. 173.
[9] “Army Review,” Vol. IV., January, 1913.
[10] “Times,” January 28, 1915.
[11] Ladies are not admitted to the Melbourne Club.
[12] Dr. J. W. Barrett, C.M.G., M.D., in the “Handbook to Victoria.”
[13] See Mr. H. M. Murphy, Chief Inspector of Factories, on the “Victorian Labour Laws,” “Handbook to Victoria,” p. 203.
[14] H. M. Murphy.
[15] “Handbook to Victoria,” p. 40.
[16] “Handbook to Victoria,” p. 42.
[17] In the “Half-time” school the teacher divides his time between two centres.
[18] See “Sheep and Wool for the Farmer,” Part I., J. Wrenford Matthews. Published by the Department of Agriculture, N.S. Wales.
[19] For 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.
[21] In 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.”
[22] W. Harrison Moore, Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne.
[23] “Flora of the South Coast,” “Handbook to New South Wales,” p. 395.
[24] There 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.
[25] Mrs. Æneas Gunn, “We of the Never Never.”
[26] An account of this interesting trial has been brilliantly given in “An Untamed Territory,” Macmillan and Co., by Miss Elsie Masson.
[27] In Malay called tripang.