Seeking photograph of a Bag House - a house made of hessian

[cupoflife]

A more modern twist https://annesley.wordpress.com/burlap-crete-explained/
Comments section (there are other interesting ideas)
...In Australia there was a similar substance used in the Depression, called petrified hessian (ie petrified burlap). The ingredients were water, cement, lime, alum and salt. It set hard as a rock, was weatherproof and I saw some buildings dating from the Depression, as late as the late 1950s so it was also very durable.

[cupoflife]

This may be of interest
Kulja Cafe: FRED FLOOD COLLECTION: A NEW CAFE IN KULJA. PEOPLE IN A QUEUE OUTSIDE THE TEA ROOMS. 4 October 1928 http://tinyurl.com/jzrpqyj
Kulja - Town & Siding Site http://tinyurl.com/j2jvqv7

[SurfinNan]

Thank you for all replies.

I was interested in reading how the huts may have been made. They were an actual structure with windows of glass and doors of wood. Not anything like a tent structure. Battye library do not have photographs of these buildings, which is a pity as it was a way of life for many.

Southern Cross is nearly 300 km south east of Kulja. Up until 1928/9 Kulja was within the Wyalkatchem Road Board boundary when it became apart of Koorda Road Board.

Thanks for all contributing to my understanding of these structures.

Evelyn