"Pimpara Lake Station, 100 miles from Broken Hill, was entirely surrounded by the swifly rising floodwaters.  The station owner and his family were living in the nearby woolshed at the time, and supplies of food were being dropped to them by pilots of Silver City Airways' planes and the Flying Doctor Service.

Residents of Tibooburra and the many stations along the route were warm in their praise of the work of the Silver City Airways and Flying Doctor pilots, without them, they claimed, their positions would have been serious."

Pimpara Lake Homestead 1949

Loading Silver City Airway's plane with              supplies for flood victims, March 1949

One Tree Station shearing shed, March 1949