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A government schoolteacher in a small town, Wild Duck Flat, in the Goulburn Valley of Victoria is dismissed for laxness with discipline and addiction to alcohol. The local notables arrange his dismissal through the department but when a registered letter and his replacement teacher, a pretty young woman, arrive his reactions are unexpected. He confesses to being an English gentleman who left England for Australia ten years before rather than marry a girl chosen for him in childhood. And his female replacement is the girl he left behind, who had done the same thing. Satirical sketch of small town life, parochialisation, the temperance movement and school children. (PB)
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- Goulburn Valley, Rushworth - Kyabram - Tongala area, Goulburn - Campaspe area, Northern Victoria, Victoria,
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