Sandy Miller and tough times at Margaret River

During a brief family holiday at Margaret River, we visited Miller's icecream shop on a farm north of Margaret River, built from a restored Group Settlement house. The shop includes a display of photos of the original land-holder, Sandy Miller, who emigrated from Scotland in 1932 at 19 years of age, to establish his dairy farm.
Sandy must have been the second wave of farmers, following the original Group Settlement times of the 1920s. By 1924, at least a third had walked off their farms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_Settlement_Scheme

But still, times must have been hard, with much of the work done by hand - the days of shovel and axe. Only the lucky and the strong would have survived, and Sandy - and his wife, must have been one of the strong, which comes through in the photos.
The photos were  an interesting contrast with the families arriving in their four-wheel drives, to buy an icecream.
 http://www.millersicecream.com.au/