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don't stand the same chance of promotion, perhaps that has something to do with it. They are all a windy lot too.
Our dug out wasn't much good so we decided to build a better home for ourselves. We set to work yesterday at dinner time and now we have our new building complete and have moved into it, but my word it was hard work. First of all we had to dig a hole in the earth five feet deep and ten feet in length & breadth. We then carried our roof, three pieces of thick curved iron (each as much as piece took four of us all our time to lift it, two hundred yards. We then filled three hundred sand bags to build up the front and back and put in supports for the roof, and lined the mud walls with galvanised iron. We then built up the roof on top with mud sand bags and concrete

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