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TALL TREES & TALL TALES

Stories of old Pemberton - a marvellous reminiscence of
the characters and places of the big timber country.

by John Morris & Roger Underwood ( ISBN: 0 85905 168 4 )

Indexed by Eric Meacock, May 2000.



 






General Index
Places and Locations
People Mentioned in the Book
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GENERAL INDEX


   
[ page numbers in yellow are illustrations ] Page No.
   
Adya Hall 28
Affairs (Town & other) 26
Axemen, The 75
Bastard, You poor 24
Beach buggy 76
Beard Tree 72
Beer (Swan & Emu) 23
Blackberries 32
Boarding House (Bush & Horse team karri country) 8
Bookmaker (SP) 51
Boorara Tree 72, 73
Boots (Gum) 23
Bridge (Early builders in karri country) 61
Bridge (Warren River) 60
Bullockies (Karri country) 52
Bush telephone 70
Bushfire 1969 73
Chaffbag Jack 79
Characters of the town 40
Choppers (Early log in the karri country) 77
Clematis 26
Club (Pemberton Workers) 33
Conservator of Forests, The 72
Dam (Hydro and pipeline) 25
Diamond Tree 72
Dunny 31, 32
East Tree 72
Epilogue 87
Fallers (Scarfing a karri - Guppy & Cook) 57
Fallers (The 'guns') 56
Ferguson Tractor 60
Fire (Tree lookouts) 70
Firewood 35
Fisheries Department 78
Fisheries Inspector 79
Fishermen, the 75
Flannelled Fools 84
Footballers, the 79
Forestry Workers 62
Gardener Trees 1 & 2 72, 73
Gardens (Pemberton) 34
Gloucester Tree 71, 72, 73
Golfers (Lady on first Pemberton links) 82
Green Ginger Wine 78
Group Settler 53
Guvvy (WA Government Railways) 36
Hall, the 26
Hall (The mill) 26
Hardenbergia (Mauve) 26
Harvesters (Hops - plucking fingers) 23
Hatcheries (Trout) 78
Haymaking (Collins Farm (Eastbrook) - early) 53
Hops (Growing) 23
Hops ('On The') 23
Hospital Tent 43
Hospital (Town's first) 1927 43
House (One of Pemberton's first) 7
Houses (Mill) 6
Houses (Mill and forestry) 31
Hut (Cattleman's, early, near mouth of Warren River) 12
Huts (Single men's, Pemberton - beyond the mill) 34
Huts (Single Men's) 33
Hydro, the 24
Hydro-electricity 24
Iron Men 84
Ironman Event (Great) 85
Jays, the 79
Karri Log (Hauling - early days) iii
Karri (The Kingdom of) 29
Kauri Timber Company sawmill 60
Kikuyi grass 32
Land Girls 22
Links (The first, under construction) 83
Loco (Steam, hauling logs on Rainbow Trail Line) 38
London Court Cigarettes 21
Lookout Tree (First Pemberton forrestry office - 1940) 14
Mandalay (The Road to) 24
Marroning 78, 79
McCall's Boarding House 41
Medal (Prince of Wales - 1920) 75
Micro-Surgery 67
Mill Houses (First Pemberton, under construction) 9
Mill Houses (Pemberton, about 1922) 32
Mill Pemberton (At full steam) 37
Millhands (On the skids at Pemberton Mill) 39
Monuments (Mitchells) 21
Museum (Tourist Bureau) 28
Office (First Pemberton, forrestry & lookout tree - 1940) 14
Pemberton Mill (First, under construction - 1913) 5
Pemberton Office Tree 72
Picture (Travelling showman, A. Jones of Busselton) 26, 28
Pool, the 26
Railway (Northcliffe - Shannon River) 76
Rainbow Trail 29
Rainfall (Pemberton) 34
Robbery Under Arms 66
Sawmills (State) 26, 28
Sawpit (Restored near Brockmans) 10
Scarlet Runner 26
Shooters and Golfers 81
Sleeper Track 76
Snake (Tiger) 34
Social Cricket Matches 84
Southerners, the 79
Spider (Red-Back) 32
Sport in the tall timber country 75
SSM7 (Restored) 16
SSM7 (Last of the locos at rest) 16
State Sawmill 87
Store (The Mill) 28
Stove (Metters Number One) 31
Sunday Times, The 65
Swan & Emu Beer 23
Taking 79
Tanks (Septic) 32
Team (Premier Football - 1969) 81
Telephone (Bush) 70, 72
Tobacco (Tending the crop) 22
Tobacco (Luxor) 21
Tourist Bureau (Museum) 28
Tourists 23
Towers (Tree lookout) 70
Town (Characters) 40
Town (Misty end) 41
Track (Sleeper - fishermans access) 76
Track (Sleeper - Warren Beach, 1966) 77
Trail (Rainbow) 29
Tramway (Logging in the karri country) 30
Trout fishing 78
WA Government Railways (Guvvy) 36
Warren Beach (Sleeper tract - 1966) 77
Warren-Blackwood Times 81
Warriors, the 79
West Australian, The 43
Wheelbarrow Race 85
Whistle (Mill) 36
Whistle (Steam) 36
Wild White Man of the Warren 65
Winch (Steam Logging, pulling karri logs) 59
Workers' Club (Pemberton) 33

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LOCATIONS


[ page numbers in yellow are illustrations ] Page No.
   
Africa 32
Arcadians, the 10
Augusta 24, 66
Bamesses 84
Barronhurst 36
Beginning (In The) 1
Big Brook 2, 3, 6, 13, 15, 60, 81
Boranup Forrest 24
Broke Inlet 66
Busselton 2
Calcap Hill 76
Caravan Park (Pemberton) 48
Cascades, the 3, 22
Collins Siding 36
Colonels, the 76
Deanmill 4, 80
Donnelly River 78
East Brook 2
Eastbrook 79
Farm ('The Colonels') 65
Five Mile Brook 6
Flybrook country 64
Gardens (Bunn's Hop) 23
Glen Warren 10
Honeymoon Gully 59
Hundred Year Forrest (Near Pemberton) Front Cover
Jardee 15
Lefroy Brook 22, 24, 43, 78, 79
Lefroy Brook (Pemberton) 35
Macedonia 22
Mills Timber (The coming of) 4
Moltoni's 42
Moon's Crossing 11
Mundaring Weir (Goldfields Pipeline) 24
Murchison Goldfields 45
Nannup 60
Nornalup Inlet 85
Northcliffe 18, 46, 53, 60, 79
One Mile Brook 2, 16, 26
One Mile Hill (Karridale) 3
One-mile Bridge 36
Pembi Pool (An early view) 27
Pipeline (Goldfields, Mundaring Weir) 24
Point D'Entrecasteaux 76
Quinninup 60
River (Donnelly) 78
Royal Perth Hospital 44
Settlements (Group) 18
Shannon 60, 79
Shannon River Mill 46
Thompson's Hill 83
Town (A growing) 13, 31
Treen Brook 6, 19
Tucks Hill 84
Walpole 85
Walpole River 85
Warren Beach 76
Warren District, the 49
Warren River 2, 10, 11, 56, 59
Windy Harbour 43, 53-4, 76
Yanmah 21, 22

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THE   PEOPLE


[ page numbers in yellow are illustrations ] Page No.
   
Abbott, Dr 43, 67
Adam, Bill 64
Anderson, Lalline 46
Angus 18
Angus (One of the girls) 59
Bamess, Judy 46
Bamess, Stan 64
Bannister, (Captain, 1831) 1, 2
Bashford, Dianne 46
Bastion, Carol 46
Bendottis 21
Bennetts (Group settler clearing a Karri stump) 20
Bennington, Ben 76
Berrigan, Tom 45
Brockman, William 2
Brockman's 2, 66
Brown, Alison 46
Brown, Annie 7, 9
Brown, Kath 46
Brown, Patricia 46
Bunn, Arthur 23
Burns, Charlie 66, 79, 80
Bussell's 2
Cabassis 21
Carmichael, Lil, Mrs 24
Carmichaels 80
Cave, Huby 76
Church, Mrs 47, 48
Collins 2, 18, 80
Collins, Jack v, 53
Collins, Joyce 45
Collins, Leanne 46
Collins, Pat (Paddy) v, 53
Cook (Fallers scarfing a karri) 57
Court, Les 54
Court, Terry 85
Courts 80
Cousins, June, Mrs 43
Curo, Ray 85
Curo, Sandra 46
D'espessi, 'gentleman' John 15
De Burgh, Mr (book - 'The Old North Road') 1
Dean, Dickie 60
Dickenson, George 15
Dobson, Joy v
Dobson, Lionel 34
Doc, the 44
Doc, the (Dr E.C. Ryan MD BS Adelaide) 45
Drake Brockman's 2, 10, 13
Duffy, Rev. Father 12
Dunn, Johnny v
Dunnett, Trish 46
Dunnett, Wally 64
Durack's, the 11
Erceg, Steve v, 80
Evans, Alec 33
Evans, Alec 'Muldoon' 83
Evans, Dave v
Evans, Dave 'Taffy' 49
Evans, John v
Evans, Mick 64
Evans, Tudor 49
Everett, Mick 51, 75
Everetts 80
Fitzgerald, Paddy 41
Fleming, Miss 6
Fox, Cathy 46
Fox, Joan 45
Foxes 80
Freemantle, Brenda 46
Freemantle, Terry 46
French, Dean 19, 53
Fuge, Lynda 46
Gabbedy, Jack v, 75
Gardner, George v
Gardner, Noreen 46
Germantse, George v, 76, 85
Germantse, George & Bernice 46
Glauder 18
Glennister, 'Banjo' 42
Glew, 'Sticky' 13, 43, 78
Gooding, Nita, Sister 43
Graham , Bobby v
Graham, Gwen v
Grahams 80
Gray's 10
Green, Howard 76
Grose, Rev 11
Groupies & Cockies, the 18
Guppy (Fallers scarfing a karri) 57
Guppy, Jack 13
Guppy, Jack, 'Old Gup' 58
Hammersley's 2
Hammond, Doc v
Harrison, Don 64
Hawkin's 19
Hickey, Jack 33
Hillman, Mr 33
Horne's 10
Hughan, Dave 'Black' 60
Hunter, Colin 'drafty' 73, 84
Hunter, Drafty (Dozer driver tall timber country) 74
Hunter, Sam 43
Jamieson , Mr 13, 28
Jamieson, Sadie 28
Jay, Hubert 21
Jay, John 64
Jay, Louise 21
Jeffereys, Ben v
Jefferies, Ben 81
Jones, Allan, Mr (Busselton travelling pictureshow man) 26
Jones, Val 46
Jones, Vic 43
Keane, Mr 33
Kelly, Gussy 79
Kelly, Janice 46
Kelly, Ralph 28, 29, 43, 46, 48, 78
Kelly's 13
Kellys 80
Kennedy, George v
Kingston, Paul 53
Kitson, Ron v, 58
Knox-Peden, Lindsay 'Old Knoxy' 65
Laidlaw, Gordon 84
Laws, Jim 73
Lee, Mick 50
Lefroy 2
Lewis, Toby 65
Littlefair, Brothers 18
Littlefair, Jim 29
Loud, Ted 62, 64, 79
Loverock, Jim 'Shackles' 54, 56
Lunn, Grif 58, 60
Major, John 45
Markwell, Ernie 50
Martin, Jack 60
Martyn, Ada, Mrs 47
Martyn, Margaret, Mrs 47
Martyn's 11
Mayo's 10
McCall, Mrs 47
McGillivray, Mavis (Matron) 45
McKeever, Norm 51, 53
McKeever, Patricia 53
McNamara, Paddy 15, 56, 62, 64
Meachem , John v, 15
Michaelides, 'Manny' 22
Mitchell, James 'Moo Cow' (Premier of WA) 18
Molloy's 2
Moltoni, Eric 85
Moltoni, Mary 46
Moltonis 21, 80
Moon, Frederick 11
Moore, Harry v, 19, 29, 76
Moore, June v
Morris, Ellen v, 81
Morris, John 35, 36, 47
Morris, John (Author, Pit's Store Manager) 47
Mountbatten, Louis (Lord) 51
Nicholls, Jim 9
Ockwell, Roy 76
Ockwell's 19
Olsen, Gus 42, 42
Omedei, Paul 49
Omedeis 21
Osboines 80
Paddy 41
Percival, Ernie 'Bluey' 56
Pierce (Mrs Woody) 56
Pierce, Woody 56
Piggott, Jim 11, 12
Piggott, Joe 11, 12
Pitcher, Dave 58, 75
Pittendreigh, 'Gentleman Jim' 22
Powell 4
Power, Jim 59, 60
Pratt, Shirley 46
Preston (Early Explorer) 2
Prince of Wales (1920) 26, 51
Redgrave, 'Cock' 33
Reynolds, George 72
Rice, Dot 45
Rice, Betty 49
Robinson, Jack 'Swamper' 51
Robinson, (Mrs Robbie) 51
Robinson (Swamper admires scarf & friend) 55
Robinson, Tommy 'Swamper' 50
Roches 80
Rooney's 10, 12
Rosmans 80
Rowberry, Joe 49
Rowe, Henry 'Raspy' 62
Rowe, Olive 62
Ryan, Dr (Joe, Cliff) 44, 50, 66, 87
Ryan, Gladys 44
Ryans 80
Ryles, Dr 43
Schweitzer, Albert, Dr 44
Scorer, Terry 47
Slim, William, Sir (Governor General) 33
South, George v, 19, 76
Sproge, Dick 67, 70
Sproge (Topping tall karri) 68
Sproge (Triumphant) 69
Stewart, Don 15, 70, 72
Styles, Ray 19
Styles, Dick 19
Styles, Gordon v, 19
Styles, Harry (Settler and horse 'Charlie') 20
Sutton, Glad 22
Ted & Raspi 63
Thompson , Bill 28
Thompson's 2, 18, 28
Timms, Jimmy 85
Todd, Gaston B., (JP or 'Toddy') 40
Toddy 40
Tozer, Leone 46
Treacy, Bill 48
Turner, John 79, 81, 85
Underwood, Ellen v
Underwood, Roger 36, 64
Underwood, Roger (Forester & wife Ellen) 64
Vialis (Colonel) 11
Vivian, Dolly 47
Wagstaff, Lorraine 46
Walcott, Brothers 1, 2
Walcott, Pemberton 2
Warne, Kath 46
Wellburn, Bob 19
White, Barney v, 53, 72, 76
White, Barney, Mrs 56
Widdeson, Bob 'Jumbo' 50, 51
Willows, Harry 11
Yukich, Steve 33

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