[1] The Sydney Morning Herald called it "one of Mr Clune's best books" although he felt "the actual building of the O.T.

[3] The Bulletin said the book was "so closely fastened to a piece of our essential folklore that one cannot but welcome it, cannot but recommend it—and cannot but wish it were infinitely better.

"[4] In 1939 it was announced Clune had written a script called Overland Telegraph which he had sold to Cinesound Productions.

The story focused on Sir Charles Todd and his team who had to construct the telegraph.

[6] However Cinesound soon stopped feature filmmaking due to the war and no movie resulted.