With the girls getting older and able to help more, Elizabeth had established a thriving vegetable garden. Many of the Norfolk Island settlers were still on Government Stores. James would not hear of his family subsisting on handouts from the Government. With Robert Bishop, who stayed on as a farm hand after his sentence expired, Cullen had sheep, pigs and hens. They had enough to eat without having to hunt the native wildlife. Those Norfolk Island neighbours who bemoaned their lot in Van Diemen’s Land and sat back waiting for the promised Government compensation for the property they left behind, were still living in tents, still waiting. Cullen, Triffitt, Hands, Roger Gavin and some others, cleared their land and built houses before the Government had caught up with the titles. There was
