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Yaringa South Station
Private Mail Bag
Geraldton
20.7.51
My dear marg
Allen is flying to Carnarvon tomorrow to a [? third] [? am] L.C.L. meeting, so had just to thank you for your sumptuous letter paper & the accompanying letter & to make sure that the first letter written in said paper is to you.
I much regret this well paid job had not cropped up some other time so that I could have held the fort at at Joan's & been handy to you through your trial by tribulation.
The work is of the lightest, just pottering around all day long, we have a coloured lad from the Swan Orphanage as a kitchen boy but he is not dependable, an alarm clock is useless, it doesn't wake him & the one given him he broke & it is quicker to light the fire than to call him & wait for him to do it, so I do it, if I don't, then Allen does it & he is doing about two [? men's] work all the time. He is away from the [? house] a great deal, [?] I feel responsible that all goes well with the kitchen, 50 fowls, 12 ducks, 6 sheep dogs, 4 pups, 3 [? telephones] , the store, daily weather reports, rain gauge, [? ? mill] , pot plants, [?] [?] &c &c &c, consequently the hours are very long, I [?] at about 5.45 A.M. and sign off about 8.30 p.m. without a break, but this will ease up when Mary
returns in about a weeks time, when she is here, she [?] the [? telephones] (3) & I get a good spell in the afternoon after lunch is squared up.
The company is most convivial, Allen, Humphrey & his mate, they are contract building a hangar (or is it hanger) & garage & have their own camp near by & young Geoff Cawling and [?] school boy & [? Malaya] , plus a son of Bishop Wilson (late) of Bunbury who is doing some building work for the station. No more just now dear, have just had a whisky with Allen & Humphrey is [?] up for his [?] effort. Much love to [? you] all Dad.