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White Lives in a Black Community: The lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha communityTracy SpencerVolume Three Appendices:Creative Life WritingSection Three: Contact ZoneWilton, and the missionary, Jim Page – and surmises they would have worked on the well atMinerawuta, the top man, pulling up the buckets of mullock, or maybe the man in the pit,digging with a shovel until dark moisture in the rock bled into a cool wet pool glinting whenthe sun sent shafts of light to meet it at midday. They knew about wells. Adnyamathanha haddug them all over the rocky Flinders.Adelaide, 1929The Deputy Surveyor of Lands recommends to the Secretary of Lands that it is doubtful theportion of lease can be resumed under the Pastoral Act. They will have to write to the Lesseesasking if they will be prepared to voluntarily surrender their land for a reserve. 119 It takes afurther month for him to do so, receiving a reply by return mail from Dalgety Co. Ltd., onbehalf of their clients Waterhouse and Martin, advising Mr D N Martin is overseas for thenext few months, and ‘we shall be glad, therefore, if you will let the matter remain inabeyance until his return.’ 120 It seems all parties were glad, for the time being. By April 1929they obviously had other things on their minds.Melbourne, March 1929Jim is proceeding through the ranks of probationer to missionary during an amalgamationbetween the Australian Aborigines Mission and the Gospel Mission to the AustralianAborigines. Easter saw a new Constitution framing the new entity known as the UnitedAborigines Mission (UAM). A self-conscious ‘Faith Mission’, its staff would depend ‘for the66