Joy also mentions that going to visit the Garnetts’s at Glenroy was considered a great treat, as was a visit from Mr and Mrs Harry White who would take the children for a leisurely ride in the cart to look for wildflowers and birds etc.
Dorothy would stay at home chatting to Mrs White, a visit she really enjoyed.
In those times “Ladies” would be invited to leave their gloves, handbags and hats etc. in the bedroom. “What a scurry to see the bedroom was tidy when anyone was sighted coming up the entry road to the farm!”
The Church of England minister- Mr Colin Fulman would preach on Sundays at the Pallinup School, then go on to Whiteworth to share lunch with Dorothy, Arthur and the children.
Arthur was very strict about table manners, any elbows onthe table got a sharp rap with the wooden handle of the carving knife!
Mrs. Freegard, who lived next door, would regularly invite Joy and/or Nancy to go into Gnowangerup with her to shop. They had to be at the gate at 12.45pm sharp and were dropped off on the way home.
Joy also enjoyed visiting Mrs. Killick, whose husband was a local mechanic. Mrs Killick instilled the love of crochet in Joy with her lovely d'oilies, tablecloths and other linen.
Dick Chambers, their neighbor was the local agent for Victoria Insurance, and he would bring Mr Raymond around. (I didnt ask Mum who Mr Raymond was...) They would bring a bottle of beer with them- not refrigerated, of course - and share the beer with Arthur.
Charlie Barnard would also visit. He was another soldier settler at Pallinup, and when things ‘had got tough’ for farmers, had joined Rawleigh’s as a salesman. Joy remembers him ‘bringing “Blue Bowl” packet pea soup, essences, ointments, cold relief and embrocations for their muscles after sports’.

Social Life
From 1924 until 1940 Joy's parents Dorothy and Arthur White participated in some of the social events in the now quite well established town of Gnowangerup
Functions would usually be held nearest to the date of the full moon, so that the way home could be seen along the bush tracks and unsealed bush roads.
Cars were registered and people began asking for better roads. The wagons cut up the roads as well with the steel rims.From at least the 1920’s wagons needed to bear registration plates just as vehicles do today. By this time Gnowangerup had grown considerably.
The Memorial Hall was opened on the 11th of August 1923 and the social life increased with plays, music evenings and other gatherings in the very spacious Hall. Sam Stewart was one of the principal organiser, and according to Joy"there was quite an actor's guild in Gnowangerup at that time". Sam was well known in the district as an excellent singer, and there were many who played musical instruments.
There was also a hotel, a bakery, a Co-op store, a saddler, a butcher's owned by C.H. Stutley and a clothing store owned by George Dobson- “Old Dobby”.
Of course the railway was well used during these years, even though the rail head had annoyingly been placed three quarters of a mile from the town site, and even more annoying was that the railway line ran right through the Main Street which caused the entire town to stop when a train went through
Dorothy was always a regular church goer, her church being St Margaret’s Anglican Church in the main street of Gnowangerup. Occasionally the family would visit Arthur's brother Frank and Betty (Rebecca) White and their two young daughters Betty and Shirley at their farm “Whitehorse Vale” in Dumbleyung. At first these trips were made by horse and buggy, they later bought a car
“A few visits to Uncle Frank's and Aunt Betty's were great events, as were the visits to Denny’s to play tennis - Mr Denny and Russell had built a lovely tennis court"
The Denny's were particularly good friends, and Charlie & his son Russell helped Arthur with the harvest as they all did when one family needed extra hands.
Dorothy was a member of the R.S.L. Woman's Auxillary, the CWA and the Church of England Guild.
Dorothy also gave/sold/bartered cream, butter and eggs to town residents and friends. It was common practice for families to set up a reqular supply of farm goods.
There was always a stall in town for one charity or another, and Dorothy almost always cooked for these, as well as supplying and arranging flowers and cleaning at St Margaret's Church.
No matter the work load or season, people always turned out for weddings and funerals, another time when people got to share social time with others.