The year 1933 was a joyous year – my parents, Bob and Joan Scott, were married. But that joy soon evaporated as the Depression that had been happening, started to be felt on the farm

Bob had been looking for that extra off-farm income, and soon found himself work in the form of windmill erections, repairs, and maintenance. Southern Cross had just brought out the new Z-pattern windmill. The farming district of Elgin in the then Road Board of Capel was mainly butterfat milk and fat cattle production. Each farm was reasonably developed but more water supplies were always needed. 

On their own far, a windmill system including a tank and troughs needed to