The group (except the child) are wearing coats and hats. Other than the man in the wheelchair, they are all standing in the sunshine in front of two corrugated dwellings.

In the book "Koonibba" by CV Eckermann there is a reference on page 97 to the financial contribution made by the "native Christians" to support a cripple who cannot work and regularly attends school. For this the young women who earn from 2 or 3 shillings a week, contribute 3d a week from their small earnings. In this regard, too, they put their fellow-Christians to shame".

Page 82-83 refers Paddy undertaking a "grand tour" of the Eyre Peninsula in his wheelchair, until it callapsed at Wirrulla and he had to return to Koonibba by train. the Koonibba community raised the funds to buy Paddy a second wheelchair.