This booklet from 1948 predates my arrival in Australia by seventeen year but things hadn't changed all that much - or maybe they had because I never even received any booklet during my two-day stay at the reception centre in Bonegilla.
This is based on the common belief that neither animal can move backwards easily.
The booklet ends by suggesting, "There are many things we could tell you but you will have no difficulty in finding them out for yourself."
Yes, there were many more things they could have told us and, no, it wasn't easy finding them out for ourselves but we got there in the end!
P.S. "-- when you're old" on page 15 makes interesting reading:
How things have changed in the meantime! - see the ABC News article "Chifley's time bomb 70 years in the making" of May 2014 - click here.
To summarise: "The National Welfare Fund has long passed into historical obscurity. But the mythology of welfare contributions it engendered remains - one that imagines the welfare state as a giant piggy bank."
