After Federation the Lord Mayor of Sydney started a fund to buy a Dreadnought Battle ship for Australia’s defence.

When war broke out Australia organised its own Navy. Afer the war, farm labour was short so the money was used to bring British boys to Australia to work on farms. My father arrived on the Demosthenes on April 19, 1925. He was 16 and was sent to Glen Innes Agricultural farm for training. After six months he went to a farm at Bellata. His parents migrated in 1930.