AustLit logo

AustLit

More Great Bush Churchmen : 2 : Gates single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1980... 1980 More Great Bush Churchmen : 2 : Gates
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

As the Rev. Canon Hurt, Principal of a Charters Towers' boarding school, travels the north and west to speak to parents, he encounters an intoxicated stockman in Camooweal to whom he offers a ride back to his station. The Rev devises a novel way of obliging the stockman to abstain from any more drinking along the drive.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

VIEW PUBLICATION DETAILS FOR ALL VERSIONS ()

Related Works

More Great Bush Churchmen : 1 : Language Bill Aplin , 1980 single work short story
— Appears in: Out in the Great North West 1980; (p. 52) Rev. Flynn and another young parson were camped by a bore with a drover for company. Their delicate attempts to curtail the drover's offensive language inflame it instead.
More Great Bush Churchmen : 3 : By Example and Faith Bill Aplin , 1980 single work short story humour
— Appears in: Out in the Great North West 1980; (p. 53-54) Aplin recounts the humorous manner in which an Anglican priest, Rev. Archie Briggs, related to people, as well as his fame for erecting a huge cross on a Mount Isa hill.
A Great Northern Churchman Bill Aplin , 1980 single work short story humour
— Appears in: Out in the Great North West 1980; (p. 49-52) Describes the kindly and humble nature of the former Anglican Bishop of North Queensland, and his encounters with people in his travels around the district.
VIEW ALL RELATED WORKS (3)
Last amended 19 Apr 2010 10:48:53
Subjects:
Settings:
  • Camooweal, Far North Queensland, Queensland,
  • North West Queensland, Queensland,
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X