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The house was basic and ordinary in its appearance, but the same could not be said in regards to its location. Situated on the north-eastern side of the township, it stood in the middle of a small clearing at the end of an obviously little-used, narrow, dirt track and was completely surrounded by trees. The track, seriously corrugated and unmaintained, skirted the northern end of an unsealed runway which provided access for emergency air-medical services should they be required in the absence of any sophisticated medical facilities in the town. It began where the approach road from the township ended at the airstrip and wound its way through the trees for approximately one kilometre before it culminated at the edge of the clearing. The house was not visible from the other homes in the t
