Item 01: Gordon Thomas Edwards letters, 21 January 1916-7 August 1919 - Page 72
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that many of the heavy storms in NSW had done a good deal of damage, and that the Orange district had suffered a good deal, I hope that none of our trees were affected or any of the paddocks washed away. We have not been having much rain here of late but plenty of snow instead. It was fairly sloppy when it first began but when the snow began to freeze and harden the conditions got much better. The last few weeks before I came away was very cold the only way you could get water was by chipping up ice or snow and melting it over the fire. Since I have been down here in Hospital there has been another heavy fall of snow. This kind of weather is much better than the wet as although it is cold it is fairly dry. There is great news in the papers concerning the latest German Submarine threats and it