num_pages: 156
description: Mention the Southwest Australian town of Donnybrook today, and it is likely to conjure up thoughts of the Donnybrook apple festival. The wider Donnybrook area has seen many activities, including general farming, timber cutting, gold mining and stone quarrying, while many associated with tourism are now emerging. However, it is fruit growing for which the district is best known, and the orchards still provide the most visible landscape. Some early settlers in Donnybrook did flourish and did collectively establish a significant orchard industry. The Lees were special people, with their own idiosyncrasies, skills and values. Bill Lee tells about his family and their story in their single-minded pursuit of goals, and how in achieving what they did, they also made a substantial contribution both to the timber industry and to the birth of a thriving fruit industry in the Southwest. This book typifies the activities and experiences of migrants of the early 20th century who, through their own efforts, established themselves, while also contributing to the establishment of an industry. It provides a historical record, in detail, of the practices and procedure of two industries of the time and place.
language: English
title: Orchard And Mill: The Story Of Bill Lee, South-West Pioneer
titlecomplete: Orchard And Mill: The Story Of Bill Lee, South-West Pioneer
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Uwa Pub