Pioneering days of Miriam Vale and district', Queensland by W. G. Blomfield, 1946-1947 - Page 15
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till he ran short of breath, & stopped them, but the dray was still in the creek. The old doctor may have been all right in the early days, but lived mostly on Molangool, Thornhill, & Warroo. He was just like the pictures of PAUL KRUGER. He came to Miriam Vale once but we had a permanent " bum " there who had worked on the station for many years, & was told he could stay till he got something to do, but "why look for trouble" he stayed. They must have been sociable people in that district in the good old days, & they must have been good old days , no fences to keep in order, & between brandings, & mustering the bullocks for sale, they used to go visiting each other. In the old station diaries, there was seldom a day that someone was not coming or going, & they seldom travelled alone. No ticks, no noxious weeds, no taxes, & when the government raised the rent of Miriam Vale, 500sq miles, from £20 a year, to £90 a year, they talked of going further out