| Ferrets and stoats, introduced by European settlers in the nineteenth century, pushed the birds further into the backblocks of New Zealand. |
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| Out in the rural backblocks, things haven't changed much from early settler days when fires often raged due to a lack of water. |
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| Gribble arrived in Western Australia in 1913 to reopen the Forrest River Mission in the wild backblocks of Wyndham. |
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| Born in Stratford in 1889, John Edward Shewry grew up on a backblocks farm at Tahora. |
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| She began as Vickie Lynn Hogan, a peroxide-blond waitress from the dusty Texas backblocks. |
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| He is the son of a Jamaican father and German mother who bought him a camper van to slog around the backblocks of the lower-level European circuit for four years. |
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| It has happened in other districts that new settlement has turned the old centres into isolated backblocks. |
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| And here let me remark that I have discovered that nobody ever lives in the backblocks. It is always the other fellow whose lot it is to live there. |
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| In 1909, Kai Tiaki refers to Maori and backblocks nursing but reveals nothing to suggest that Maori nurses were seen as colleagues in the association. |
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| Rereading some of these poems after thirty years re-vealed that they have been bivouacking in the backblocks of memory, ready to return at the slightest prompting. |
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| She travelled 350 miles through outback Australia in a covered wagon, with a missionary and lady chaperone, to learn more about life in the backblocks. |
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| BackBlocks are available for about pounds 30 but a cheaper homemade substitute is to lie over a five centimetre stack of books. |
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