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Show Wives Like Australian Communitv Life j a new school, a public hall and business offices. Mrs. Poath, who, like her husband, hus-band, comes from Missouri, says it was worth flying across the Pacific to settle at Eildon. "It's somehow queer to think of Australia as a foreign country," she said. "Everybody's so easy to know and everybody makes us feel so much at home that it's really difficult to believe we're in another an-other country." While the American and Australian Austral-ian dam workers are eye-ing off one another's methods and learning learn-ing to get along on the job, a pattern pat-tern of community life is growing in the construction village. Families Fam-ilies from Colorado, Montana, California, Cal-ifornia, Nevada, Kansas, and Missouri, Mis-souri, share the fast-growing village vil-lage with families from England, Scotland and Holland, besides Australians. Aus-tralians. Ultimately their village will consist of 700 houses with shops, |