may I second guess what David's response might be?
we would if we could but we can't
the good indigenous people of
that island would need more than the promise of kina to form an
army of heavy duty machete wheeling chanters. I say chanters because
those big fellas from the Torres Strait Islands who worked on the railway from Mount Tom Price to Karratha in the mid '60s ; to hear them lift and lay in place, singing all the time, all along lugging that heavy iron down a track of about 168 miles (I think), was a memorable experience.
Last edited by FAR CU; 16th Mar 2018 at 02:24.