BACK                                                                                                                       HOME came on at Fowler's Gap and Cobham.  Bullock wagons average 10 - 15 miles per day.  Later after 1905 came the camels.  These were faster than bullocks.                                                         THE BORDER FENCE                                  The Queensland wild dog, or dingo, is a killer who decimates, flocks for fun.  To keep him only in cattle regions where he can do little harm, the border fence was dog-proofed in 1921.  To keep it this way along the fence, approximately every 25 miles lives a man and his family.  The man patrols his 25 miles mending breaks and making repairs.  At the headquarters at Smithville on the SA fence and Wompah on the Queensland fence (30 miles north of Tibooburra), there are two houses and families.                                                                                                          SCHOOL OF THE AIR                                  In February, 1956, the School of the Air opened over the Flying Doctor transceiver network, with Mrs Gibb as the first teacher in - charge.  Its aim was:  1.  To give isolated children of the outback the opportunity of taking part in those social experiences which play such an important part in education today.  2.  To help improve oral expression and to develop self confidence.                                                                                                    3.  To supplement the work of the Correspondence School.                                                                                                       4.  To develop the spirit of friendship among outback children through a feeling of belonging to their own school.                                                 The School of the Air helps to carry out a most important educational aim:  "No child shall be debarred from an education because of an unfavorable beginning". Most teachers in Broken Hill now know of its good service.                                                                                                                                                  THE FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE.                          The lot of the pioneers of Australia's Inland, and those of the 'Corner' was a hard one.  The Reverend Dr John Flynn was shocked to hear of pioneer mothers digging the graves with their hands for their children, of bushmen whose lives were cut short through lack of medical attention.                                As a result of his work there is now a medical service which within a few hours, can bring aid to the people of the 'Corner'.  Usually, only a few minutes are needed for a worried mother at a station with a transceiver set to speak directly to the Doctor and obtain advice.   The Flying Doctor Service was free to those in need.                                                                                                                                                      FURTHER IMPROVEMENT                                                                                                                   The Flying Doctor, C. Huxtable, first conceived the idea of a hostel at Tibooburra for children of bush workers and border fence patrol men.  He had watched mothers, handicapped by their own lack of education, struggling to cover the early years of reading and number teaching, where the correspondence school cannot greatly assist with their children.  In recent years a fine new school has been built and Tibooburra-the hub of 'The Corner', may look forward to bigger and better improvements in the future.                                                                       END                                                                                                              PHOTOS NEXT PAGE