Bye, Vera
'At Gibraltar, Miss Vera Bye (teacher) found boarding with Ted & Bessie Woods' slab home difficult: the croaking of frogs kept her awake, and the mournful cry of the curlews even led her to tears. Several teachers married into the local community. Some were well liked, but others were tyrants. In about 1915 Miss Mary Woodbridge was the Gibraltar school teacher boarding at the Woods' place. One morning observing that the Woods girls Elma and Doris had neglected to give her a spoon for her boiled egg at breakfast she caned them later ot school.'
[From 'Rugged beyond lmagination - stories from an Australian mountain region', Matthew Higgins]
Schools
- Gibraltar School
1918 - 1919