Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 188
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[Page 188]
October 30 7
My dear Geoffrey
This is Tuesday night & the post does not close till tomorrow, but as I dont know what tomorrow has in store for me it is wiser to begin my letter to you tonight. I am enclosing various small cuttings which may interest you.
The one of Mrs. George Lane Mullins amused Mother on account of the delightfully inconsequential story about the bravery of "somebody else's boy" as a stretcher bearer. Another cutting is from tonight's Evening News about your friend Galloway's flight from Melbourne to Albury on his way to Sydney. There has been a good deal in newspaper correspondence lately about the woes of the men who had been taught to fly at the State Aviation School at Richmond, which you helped to arrange & who have been looked at askance by the Point Cook military authorities, as the Commonwealth people at Head Quarters in Melbourne highly disapprove of our State Government butting in & establishing a flying school of their own. Hence the Richmond school is purely civilian & the boys cannot wear uniform of any description. You know, if anyone does, what rotters run the show or used to in Melbourne.
The last cutting is from the Bulletin about Eileen Lyon's wedding, & jumbles up the Hughes family as usual. Cecily Hughes in her letter to Mother which we got yesterday threatens you with another job as best man at Christmas or thereabouts.
Did I tell you that I have sold Innisfail, the Toohey establishment at Wahroonga? I sold it a few weeks ago to Dr. George Armstrong for £3000. Miss Egan doesnt like it a bit, & thinks the place is thrown away. That is all very fine but although we have tried for years to get more for it, this is the first really genuine