WAY BACK IN 1947 it cost just as much to buy a house as in today’s terms, balancing your relevant income with the cost of a loan and the market price. As far as I can see, it cost about £3,000 for a median house keeping in mind that the returning soldiers from the Second World War were on a wage of “5 bob a day” or the magnificent sum of 50¢, although the equivalent today would be proportionately higher, of course. So when a generous widow with a social conscience, Mrs. Catherine Musk, left £47,000 to the Christian Brothers order in 1947 she wanted the money used for the benefit of the orphan boys at Bindoon. Mrs. Musk was very specific in her direction in her will. She wanted the money used to set the boys up in their own farms. She specifically directed that none of her money was to be used on erection of buildings but solely for the purposes she outlined. Of course, upon her death, the Christian Brothers turned the money to their own benefit at Bindoon and the orphans were denied the generous inheritance designed by Mrs. Musk to give them hope in life.