PERSONALITIES IN AUSTRALIAN COTTON: Myrna Harris

摘要

A well known wheeler-dealer from the big smoke was heard to lament that the only people that he felt had ever got the better of him in a business deal was a farming family from Rowena. This was said with respect rather than regret or resentment. And you have to respect the efforts of a family that — with a lot of hard work, with a lot of purpose and not a little daring — has put together an impressive string of properties across several states. The Harris family came down from the hills around Coonabarabran onto the black soil plains in the early sixties Bruce and Elsie, Norm and Myrna, and their young families put together everything they had — and a little more — to buy "Moomin".