COMMITTEE

Dear Dig,

Harry Teasdale of Corndale, via Lismore wrote us during the winter and his letter is choice enough to be quoted as it came... "Max (our little son) only gets into mischief once a day now and that's as soon as he gets out of bed. From then on he's up to his neck in it until he gets back into his bed at night. He has an accomplice, it’s a pup, and the way these two wrestle would put Chief Little Wolf to shame. There are no holes barred. The pup bites Max, in fact his legs are all covered with little teeth marks but the pup has hair and he covers up after a few bites as Max starts to pull the hair out in handfuls. Yes, Reg, one day we heard the pup howling and looking out of the window we saw that the pup must have been getting the best of the fight because Max was on the floor but he had his arms around the pup and was biting the pup. They really have a lot of fun together. Russ Mackie does the right thing on Sunday mornings and takes his kiddies along to Sunday School. Mind you, Mrs. Dickie's pub is just a few miles further down the road but I wouldn't say that Russ fills in time down there or not. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he waits for them in the car, near the Church.

The Ossie Jackson's have a Morris Oxford now. The Red terror let them down so they bought the Oxford.

Brian Hayes and Ben Pearce have sworn off smokes for life and making everybody's lives miserable about it. We are trying to get them back to normal as fast as we can.

Well I suppose you have all got the hot water bottles in use now.  (This letter was written in June - S.A.) The only fault I find with them is that you can only warm one side of your feet at a time. Someone wants to invent a water bottle like a pair of gum boots so you can get both feet in them" - That was all in Harry's letter, we look forward to receiving more of this type of letter from him.

Teddy Lutz has been in some trouble for the last two years with housing trouble, he is working at Sydney and travelling to Yanderra each weekend where his wife and family are living. The rush is getting him down a little he says and his health is beginning to suffer.

Harry Duprez is seriously ill in Yaralla Hospital with chest trouble and all his friends, and they comprise the whole Unit, wish him a speedy recovery.

We report that the widow of one of your deceased friends has been granted a pension, the Association taking an active part in the application for it.

George Johnson, the big sergeant of C. Coy., is still able to work as two men as an extract from a recent letter will show. – “I am very busy (writes Johnno) these days. The prolonged wet season has already put me back two months with my clearing of new land. I only managed to clear 25 acres last season and this year I had hoped to brush and fall 50 acres. Men just cannot be had for this type of work so you can see that I will have to push myself to the limit this year to get it done.

I ran into Dave and Mrs. Tate in Innisfail last week. They had their two children with them, young John and the new baby girl who was born last January. Dave is still the same long skinny streak. I had the honour of being Standard bearer for the big March in Innisfail on Anzac Day.”

ANNUAL REUNION.

The Annual Reunion will be held this year at Arncliffe Drill Hall on Friday, 26th November at 8 p.m. The charge will be ten shillings per scone as usual and both soft and fermented, but not spirituous, health drinks will be provided. Biscuits will be on issue and a piece of tasty cheese per person. There was some discussion on the purchase of the cheese mainly as to whether 'tasty' or 'mild' should be purchased. One character said that he considered that 'mild' cheese was very tasty at times and would be quite suitable but apparently 'mild' cheese can never be tasty at all. "In that case" said our friend "why does anyone buy the crimson stuff if it isn't tasty?" It was all very confusing but apparently 'tasty’ cheese is very much tastier than 'mild' and we settled for that.

Please make every effort to be present at this reunion, you are assured of a bumper night as usual.

Cheerio,

STAN ARNEIL

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