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8.6.18France
My dear Mother Father & Sister
May Hamilton has just written to me telling of the bush fire round Raitihi it must have been very solid & great trial to you, she sent me a news cutting & I am delighted to see that you lost only the new horses, mine goodness, you were evidently fortunate. I am wondering how you will come out & expect that you will have incurred some loss. I would like to know exactly how much, its jolly hard luck but might have been very much worse. It was jolly kind of May Hamilton to get in touch with you & I feel grateful for her letter regarding the catastophy is so far the only one I have received, I see that my Dad did good work & I
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