We went to Onslow then, stay at
I used to love working on the
the reserve, but we used to live
stations, and I been working in
out in the open, we had no houses,
Uralla station for the Pattersons.
lived in the sand hill but it was
Ironing, set the table for them,
lovely, anyway, sometimes we used
wash their clothes. We get a ration
to live in the tent. We used to work
from there.
at Uralla station; you have to cross that Ashburton River.
Marshall Smith’s Saddle, photograph by Claire Martin, 2014
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