Turner writes of what he knows”[3] A critic from Wireless Weekly described the play as a "chorus-commentary out of a girl’s voice reading a letter from her lover on the goldfields.
Its many facets were cleverly arranged, and I approved the way he based each scene on an extract from a letter written by a bank clerk in Murchison to his sweetheart at the coast.
There is enough dramhtic quality in the plotting of the robbery to provide the tension that is probably necessary to make radio drama hold the attention of a wide audience, but it is the discovery and delineation of the life of bank clerk, railway guard, mothec, nurse, barmaid and miner and, in part, of the very Goldfields town itself, that lifts this play far above scores of others which have stories as involved and surprising as the wiring of a home-made radio set.
"[6] The Bulletin called it "a study of goldfields life, interesting in its minor details of bars, nurses, country trains, but depending too much on accident, and a crude “wow” type of ending.
Into a relatively short play the author of “Hester Siding” and “Coat of Arms” has packed a three-dimensional view of a goldfields community—“the empty skyline of the fields, broken only by poppet heads and dumps; the barren expanse of semi-desert glittering in the fierce sunshine; and drawn back on to its dusty hillock like a regiment hard-pressed.