Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 378
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Parliament N.S.Wales
Cranbrook Cottage
Double Bay
Sydney, 9th April 1918
My dear Geoffrey
My last letters to you were dated the 3rd and 4th of this month, & the last one contained a draft for your Australia Hotel dividend £6:13:4. I am sending the second of exchange with this letter so that you can negotiate it if you haven't received the first of exchange. Otherwise it is no good.
Mother has gone to speak at a Red Cross meeting at the Paddington Town Hall, presided over by Lady Helen Munro Ferguson, so I stopped at home to write to you. The mail closes early on Thursday morning, so that I would have to post tomorrow (Wednesday) in any event, and one never knows what may interrupt me tomorrow. The subscriptions for the Sixth War Loan close tomorrow, & there is every prospect of the public subscribing the forty millions asked for. I hope they do more, as every penny is needed & we want about one hundred millions a year to pay our