The authorities restricted Australian branch overseer, Philip Rees, to the town of Picton, where he was kept under surveillance. Happily, the town was only 70 miles (110 km) out of Sydney. Though he was not permitted to move out of that town, there was no restriction on other brothers visiting him there. Hence, two nights each week the brothers who were not restricted, and who were keeping things going, stoked up a charcoal-gas car and drove out to Picton to meet with Brother Rees in a secluded ravine.

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Philip Rees, who capably carried on as branch overseer after the death of Brother MacGillivray and whose daughter, Maudie, he later married