KEEN TO ENLIST
OUTBACK AUSTRALIANS. Men in the Australian outback have undertaken gruelling journeys to join the Army. One man at Fink in the centre of the continent, “jumped” a train and rode 140 miles then begged rides on motor trucks for another 650, and then “jumped" another train into Darwin. Another carried his swag from the Queensland border on the Gulf of Carpentaria to Darwin when a mailman told him there was a war on. A third walked 140 miles to Wyndham in Western Australia and went on to Darwin by boat. A passing motorist told him about the war and he was on his way in an hour. Two men, keen to enlist, were fined 10s for stealing a ride on a train, but smiled serenely when the magistrate told them it could be deducted from their military pay.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1939, Page 6
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141KEEN TO ENLIST Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1939, Page 6
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