His verse celebrated the lives and mores of the outback pastoral folk he ministered to as a peripatetic curate in the southern New South Wales and Riverina towns of Thurgoona, Berrigan and Narrandera, in the first two decades of the 20th century.
The poet's verse honored the experiences and traditions of the rural community he ministered to while traveling through the outback towns of Thurgoona, Berrigan, and Narrandera in southern New South Wales and Riverina from the start of the 20th century.