Ideal settlers' homes are to be met with in all districts-a weatherboard or brick cottage, comfortable and roomy, with wide verandahs, covered with creeping grape or passion fruit vines, a few beds of brilliant flowers, a vegetable patch, and an acre or so of fruit trees.
"Wheat Growing in Australia"
Australia Department of External Affairs
Flames went up from the new weatherboard corner of the house.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
McNab's weatherboard shanty, with its sign-board of a black bull, with red-rimmed eyes on a white ground, was by far the most pretentious.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard