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Note: ssibly others) combined to form a syndicate to purchase the Mossman sawmill and operate it as the Boyne Valley Sawmilling Company which was listed at Builyan from 1917. Married Susannah Agnes McCosker in 1914. "The first mill at Glastonbury was erected by Paddy Green (who selected land there) and his son Austin. In 1922 he sold to Walker Brothers trading as Glastonbury Sawmilling Company, Richard W. Walker was described by his accountant as too honest to have made money during the war. By 1946 he was running out of local timber supplies and needed Forestry allocations." "The family story, not often mentioned, was that they all had an interest in a race horse (also with a man called Morrow ) and were taken down by the trainer. It was a very serious matter - Dad (Frederick Thomas), Uncle Dick and Fitzhenry (William) swore off betting for life. It seems more than possible that they lost the sawmill over it. Morrow later became a successful trainer in his own right and did well with some good horses in Brisbane in 1940-41 when I used to go see him whenever I played in the Brisbane Municipal Band at Eagle Farm races while at teachers' college. It was obvious that he thought well of Dad and Uncle Dick and he always took the trouble to give me a hint about whatever one of his horses was running - one of his horses I remember was Rex Buzz. Another associate from those earlier times was a man called Gordon, who owned the Australian Hotel in Gympie when we lived there in the 1930's. I think he was a renowned lawn bowler (Queensland team?) when he was in Gympie." recounted by Richard Frederick Walker.
Note: In 1914 Dave and Albert McLachlan, William Fitzhenry and Frederick and Richard Walker (and po
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