1944

Alf  B7C1 died unexpectedly of appendicitis in 1944, just as the government had decided to enlarge the properties in this very dry Mallee area .  Unexpectedly, though, for these innovators and conservation cup winners, they were not chosen to have an expanded area.  Along with others, they lost their farm.  Some of the older brothers naturally sought to retain the farm and their investment in it..  Compensation was meagre.  Alf’s family got less for the property after twenty years hard work than the amount they had brought into the area twenty years earlier.