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old London motor bus after the show and brought them up to our mess for some morning tea. Our Commandant Major Vaughan (son of Canon Vaughan) rang up their matron to ask could they stay to lunch, but he got such a NO back over the telephone that he won't try it on any more matrons.
We are having some baths erected for the officers here - typically English no shower, nor cold water tap all the water having to come through a bath-heater. English folk still hold the idea that on one hot bath per week is better than a shower or two every day. They certainly look well on it, and I have not noticed them scratching themselves much.
The System of Forestation is very complete in France. As soon as a piece of land has become worked for farming purposes it is immediately planted with trees so that there is practically no waste land in France, for what isn't growing crops for feeding stock is growing trees. This must have been going on for many years past, as you will frequently come across what on first sight would appear to be virgin forest land, but on closer inspection it will be found that the trees are in rows showing that the importance of Forestation has long been recognised by the French people. All roads throughout the country are bordered by trees - deciduous trees which give the roads a chance of keeping dry in the winter and afford shade in the summer. Australia could with benefit adopt both these ideas and thus show a proper appreciation of the value of trees which at pressent seems altogether lacking.