Item 01: Malcolm Shore Stanley correspondence, 8 December 1916-28 October 1918 - Page 118
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[Page 118]
Officer for the Melbourne Show so could not come. It would be great practise for him and a change from continual study.
By the last mail from England we received a service card from Jack Whitworth saying that he was wounded and in a hospital. His lady love from Sydney wrote to Father asking for information, but a card is very scant news and that has been all we heard I suppose any official news would go to Uncle John. The strike still continues as far as the miners are concerned. Boats can't leave port for the want of coal and in Melbourne on Monday all gas is to be cut off from 8 A.M. until 5 P.M. for all householders, so I guess that there won't be many hot dinners unless they burn wood. Riots are taking place and almost all the large shops present a wounded appearance as stone throwing is being indulged in and plate glass windows have suffered severely.
I'd be a poor kind of farmers daughter if I omitted to mention that the grass is coming on nicely (Springtime of course). The market price of potatoes is about zero. Crops are late. We have plenty of eggs. Milk not too plentiful - result - butter a fair price. White sugar unprocurable.