1951-07-20 H A Hall to Margaret Wilson from Yaringa South
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| Title: | 1951-07-20 H A Hall to Margaret Wilson from Yaringa South |
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| Identifier: | archives.org.au/1951-07-20_H_A_Hall_to_Margaret_Wilson_from_Yaringa_South |
| Parent item: | Bundle of papers related to Aubrey Hall |
| Storage location: | H.M. Wilson Archives/Folder 3 |
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| Authors: | Harold Aubrey Hall |
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| License: |  Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)It will enter the public domain in Australia on 1 January 2034. |
| Related people: | Harold Aubrey Hall · Helen Margaret Wilson (née Hall) |
| Related places: | Yaringa South |
| Keywords: | H.M. Wilson Archives |
| Description: | Letter from Aubrey Hall to his daughter Margaret, written from Yaringa South Station where Aubrey was working. Topics: LCL meeting in Carnarvon; a boy from Swan Homes; building a hangar and garage; a son of Bishop Cecil Wilson; etc. |
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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, [illegible] 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, [illegible] [illegible] &c &c &c, consequently the hours are very long, I [illegible] 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 [illegible] 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 [illegible] 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 [illegible] up for his [illegible] effort. Much love to you[?] all Dad.
