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also are 1 shoemaker, 2 photographers, 2 barbers and several carpenters in the camp, all more or less useful enterprises, useful for the general public and for the owners.
Mr Eggers received a letter from Mrs Bauer in Bourke yesterday, in that which she bitterly complains about her fate and says that she cannot stand the life there much longer. Heat and flies are unbearable, she says. Children and adults alike are suffering from eye ailments, and they can’t make a move without netting, and any bit of food has to be covered with netting. The recent cyclone has destroyed several houses completely and left most of the others without a roof. Mrs B. sent a photograph of the Lohrmanns’ apartment, which shows the ceiling of one room totally collapsed, the fireplace collapsed and the rest smashed to bits. She says they have to pay themselves for any repair work
as the government refuses to do it and they cannot exist without a roof. Just like paradise indeed!
17/11/1915. Yesterday I read a really good novel.