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NOTE.

(By J.M. Clifton).

Before copying the diary, it will make it more lucid if a few explanations are given. W.S. Hall established the first station in the Rosbourne (Cossack) district for Mr. John Wellard of "Lowlands", Serpentine, S.W. The station was called Andover and remains so to this day. Mr. Padbury and his party, which included Mr. Charles Nairn, also landed at North Beach, Cossack, about six weeks earlier but pushed on further into the DeGrey district. I make these statements to settle the heated controversy that has been waged in a well-known weekly newspaper in Perth regarding the names of the first men to land at Cossack and the name of the first station in the Roebourne district.

March, 1928.