strong Australian accent amongst his Italian brothers, sisters, community friends and associates. Trimbole ran the organisation of pickers for the NSW farms of marijuana well above Griffith down past Hay and short of Balranald, New South Wales where he then skirted across the border down towards Melbourne. 'Big Bill' Griffith had not been able to retain Griffith during the 1950s and maintained a cordial relationship as long as both did not cross into the other's 'turf', Big Bill had Balranald and there was a line on the road near Hay to denote the blood boundary. Big Bill was though the money lender, interesting Big Bill lent to everybody and funded Al Grasby Minister for Immigration to the tune of $50,000 to make a problem go away carried by Big Bill's grandson Steven. Neutral turf was always the race track where all borders abstained while deals were done, Trimbole and Big Bill preferred Moonee Valley racetrack. $50,000 was known as a 'brick', because it was so heavy with no $50 notes. At all pickings there were always three police escort vehicles, and school buses had windows blacked out, a nights picking in the seventies for a child was $100 cash, it generated one semitrailer of 'dope', the country word for city people who smoke it. Disappearance of Donald Mackay Donald Bruce Mackay was a local politician, and anti-drugs campaigner. He was born and raised in Griffith, New South Wales, and operated his family's furniture business. Described as being very community minded, Mackay was an Australian Liberal Party candidate from 1973 to 1976, but failed to win a seat in parliament. Concerned about the growing drug trade in his local area, and learning of a large crop of marijuana in nearby Coleambally, New South Wales, Mackay told Sydney police of the information he had obtained regarding the crop, which resulted in several arrests, and four men of Italian descent being convicted on Mackay's information. At the trial of the men arrested, Mackay's name was read out during evidence, identifying him as the whistleblower. On 12 July 1977, an attempt was made by an unidentified man to lure Mackay to Jerilderie. The caller claimed to want to make a large order of furniture from Mackay's family business. Mackay, busy attending a funeral at the time of the planned meeting with other matters, sent an employee, who travelled to Jerilderie to find nobody about.