Kuprilya Springs Pipeline

[2] The scarcity of water also impacted the European population and Pastor Albrecht's own daughter Helene became ill herself and, at the age of four, weighed less than she had at two.

[1] It is around this time that a pipeline to Kuprilya Springs was given as a solution but there were disagreements between various 'factions' of the Mission Board and also with the government; a large part of the argument was whose responsibility it was to provide water and who would pay for it.

[1] In 1929, after the completion of the railway to Alice Springs, Hermannsburg was visited by Melbourne artist Jessie Traill and her friend Una Teague.

Una's sister, Violet Teague, already an established artist[3] rushed to the mission to help and, after hiring a taxi to drive her all the way from Melbourne to Hermannsburg, painted prolifically once there.

When in Hermannsburg the Teague sisters and Traill camped and Albert Namatjira was their "guide, camel boy, cook and attendant" on their painting excursions and Violet, in particular, was so well liked by Albert and his wife Rubina that they named one of their daughters after her: unfortunately, baby Violet died when only 5 months old.