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-LET= FROM. THE-LADS AND LASSES
+=====Letters From Lads And Lasses.=====
-Letters wore received frem the fol1evein3 members durirg September;. Jack Ade ns Bruce Simps_on Jeen Pny
-Batty P-7de. Ted Patercen Ueas Jcnes
+Letters were received from the fol1owing members during September:
-Dill Burke Larney Evans Ma-J. Gentle Les Douf;Iae,
-Betty P--- e - 23-2-44 - Donilieujn, Remember Me? I have once again changed mor aboe e nd. eea ncee, ar3 yeet (;o1.1 eee, out in t7ee dead hnart et Ortrflye r., the Dancl of -er eortunity, tile Tolden weet where men ar-e not mon bat J. years olr air t:i:Tliees or el,ie-rD.y ci7ili an lc:heurers, Eacromentc: I..do get stuck into come straego srette, den't 1? But what T. did to deserve t his, IT. dteet J.aiee, rey
+  * Jack Adams
-life ent7i:eely bleneless, (well almost) and nothing Itvii ever done ecield
+  * Bruce Simpson
-pcesib4. TRT-r'Cr.(117 banishment to this far flung out-pont of the Eneeire, Tt ia
+  * Jean Ray
-quite tne most unnterosting country flve e7er been in - not a hill between
+  * Betty Pryde
-he7:e) and Pe-rth te beieak the howling gales that sweep'aorees the praire, Last - atar d-r v'n went for a walk - trotted about 6 miles 1),It might oust as well have etood on one square foot and lifted ny feet up and down for all the change in scenery. Never in all my life have I.seen so muoh sky at one time I'm all for the tide open e-naces where ion are men, but these spaceS are a bit too -wide and the men are only 18 or cripples, What a life.
+  * Ted Paterson
-This is a flying training school and every one dashed about looking  most terribly important, but having been in the Air Force for 2 years 1 secretly s7cpect that it is all just a lot of hooey and-that nobody is important And thet :eobey as anything to do and just dashed about in such manner to sort of draw a red herring or two or three over the trail. Of course I may not be right but it is just a theory I have.
+  * Chas Jones
-The unit is about 2 miles out of the town and for all the geod that is it might just ao well be 200, The town is just a town and the whi-r1 of reckless social gaiety is confined to movies and a dance put on by the local Comforts. Fund on Tuesday, There is a ball once a month to which the farmers and their numerous emale offpring give their patronage, clad in the most astonishing array of "evening gowns", with sequins and thi ngs scattered will-nilly over the entire ensemble,
+  * Bill Burke
-We have a dance on the unit on Mondays and most of the girls trot along very resp].endent in their -chiffons and their organ:l ins with much trilling and floumeizg and much in the way of floral decoration in the hair, and eyephadct aed gord knows_wot-not, All their finery is covered by the Service great-ceats, airwomen for the use of, and they trot off clutching their 2/- and aelt,ear to_ have a wonderful time. I am afraid that 1 have lost my joie de vivre, because I am no longer anxious to wear my very best-go-to-meeting everling gown and silver slippers and wait to be asked to dance by pimply 18 year old youths with their hair plastered down with petroleum bought at the canteen for Si per -jar, I am afraid the rot is setting, in, because T. prefer to sit 'by the little stove in the hut and do- my knitting and rd my beck and mak,emyselt a el7T of tea at 9 olclock and then go to sleep on my couch of straw, and snarl inwardly at the roysters coming home at the indecent,hour of 11,30 and stumbling over the kit bags in the aisle of the hut,
+  * Barney Evans
- I have found it do cold here after the warmth of queenslandts sunny - skies that I have only been out at night to the movies on the station (and then
+  * Max Gentle
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+  * Les Douglas
-under loud protest) about twice in the two months I have been here, It hao been bir-)237 (refey. 1st 7.)argrR-oh, -17ard and winc7 coming
-frnthjrh Th? r.-*ple of :a ys hi71 i 0-7,rM;:rrs but not
+===Betty Pryde - 23-8-44 - Deniliquin.===
-me to off =-7t7Ya r.,f the layors if ciothea in -which
-my by swadd:1,
+Remember Me? I have once again changed my abode and am now, as you can see, out in the dead heart of Orstrilyer, the land of opportunity, the golden west where men are not men but 18 years old air trainees or elderly civilian labourers. Sacramento, I do get stuck into some strange spots, don't I? But what I did to deserve this, I don't imagine, my life is entirely blameless, (well almost) and nothing I've ever done could possibly warrant banishment to this far flung out-post of the Empire. It is quite the most uninteresting country I've ever been in - not a hill between here and Perth to break the howling gales that sweep across the prairie. Last stand-down I went for a walk - trotted about 6 miles but might just as well have stood on one square foot and lifted my feet up and down for all the change in scenery. Never in all my life have I seen so much sky at one time. I'm all for the wide open spaces where men are men, but these spaces are a bit too wide and the men are only 18 or cripples. What a life.
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+This is a flying training school and every one dashed about looking most terribly important, but having been in the Air Force for 2 years I secretly suspect that it is all just a lot of hooey and that nobody is important and that nobody has anything to do and just dashed about in such manner to sort of draw a red herring or two or three over the trail. Of course I may not be right but it is just a theory I have.
-p=r=7,thctio with the wrong patients,
-Sum,F,how I havo a f;lcult for 4.;_o the wrg scrts atpit usually
+The unit is about 2 miles out of the town and for all the good that is it might just ao well be 200. The town is just a town and the whir1 of reckless social gaiety is confined to movies and a dance put on by the local Comfort's Fund on Tuesday. There is a __ball__ once a month to which the farmers and their numerous female offpring give their patronage, clad in the most astonishing array of "evening gowns", with sequins and things scattered will-nilly over the entire ensemble.
-f2.ad tha tl-tpoor mann who locd!.7(-; ::;:c n.bly ill and vas waitAg to see
-aEn't really ill, bui: ny ha ee the d:.c, to have his
+We have a dance on the unit on Mondays and most of the girls trot along very resplendent in their chiffons and their organdies with much trilling and flouncing and much in the way of floral decoration in the hair, and eye-shadow and gord knows wot-not. All their finery is covered by the Service great-coats, airwomen for the use of, and they trot off clutching their 2/- and appear to have a wonderful time. I am afraid that I have lost my joie de vivre, because I am no longer anxious to wear my very best-go-to-meeting evening gown and silver slippers and wait to be asked to dance by pimply 18 year old youths with their hair plastered down with petroleum bought at the canteen for 8 1/2 per -jar. I am afraid the rot is setting in, because I prefer to sit by the little stove in the hut and do my knitting and read my book and make myself a cup of tea at 9 o'clock and then go to sleep on my couch of straw, and snarl inwardly at the roysters coming home at the indecent hour of 11.30 and stumbling over the kit bags in the aisle of the hut.
-ptj!=i:;.cal verifed for fcr nEoccint, because
-he was dr,Lk in totn:a na. e hamic,o (7.L'r1177Lan to eath r mich, I.
+I have found it so cold here after the warmth of Queensland's sunny skies that I have only been out at night to the movies on the station (and then under loud protest) about twice in the two months I have been here. It has been bitterly cold - (refer 1st paragraph, in regard to cold and wind coming from Perth). The last couple of days have been considerably warmer, but not enough for me to cast off one of the numerous layers of clothes in which my body beautiful is swaddled.
-ha7e. lead to, pall a old -, .711=a cold a "r_r;r4a and ;1-...alk nc rt c.h!TtntIy about
-"a7nelldltand "tansUccomy" -. arcfree abandor,
+I am not on my own work, which is also a blow but am working (or taher, in attendance) at the Hospital in the orderly team, and muddle about with medical records and specialise in being sympathetic with the wrong patients. Somehow I seem to have a faculty for being nice to the wrong sorts and usually find that the "poor man" who looked so terribly ill and was waiting to see the doctor wasn't really ill, but only had to see the doc. to have his physical fitness verifed for his week's hard labour, for on account of because he was drunk in town and battered a harmless civilian to death, or such. I have learned to call the old common cold a "coryza" and talk nonchantly about "appendiscotomy" and "tonsilectomy" with carefree abandon.
-worfh cbmment on your ,.rer's InttEr becautze it vas writte]'1 on 24th May (Shame on you Elizabct:2) (11,. you will not h ve the'remotol
-what you wrote on the 24th Mayl but it raf7 really a most entortainj ng screed anl I enjoyed it today rereadir s dl as muc as ever,-Y.,Your lettrers
+I won't comment on your very news letter because it was written on 24th May (Shame on you, Elizabeth) and you will not have the remotest idea what you wrote on the 24th May, but it was really a most entertaining screed and I enjoyed it today re-reading it as much as ever. Your letters always entertain me. 'Scuse this being typed, but if I wrote a letter here at the hospital it looks as though I'm just loafing and could be better employed, but if I type, and make a great clatter with the keys, everyboby thinks "Poor girl, she is terrib1y busy, we must not disturb her".
-en.Gortain Me, uScue this being typed, btif I Wf0(1,i. etter 11, rt? at
-hospital it looks as though Im just 1:)afin:o, and ccud be bc=tter emi:loyed, but if I VD.9. and make a great clatter with 1 c c,evt-)ryboy thinks !'Poor irL she is to7rib1y busy, we must not disturb he:c.
+We live in long tin huts, there is not a two storey building on the entire estate and from the distance it looks like "Stalag 999999". The WAAF are in what we refer to as the Compound, sounds like an enclosure for wild animals. There are not many girls here, and we have about 24 to a hut, and you can imagine that it is about as private as a zoo. Isn't it extraordinary the ritual some girls go through when preparing for bed? We have little fue1 stoves in the centre of the hut and all sit around it at night cursing our unhappy lot and discussing what the sergeant said and what we said to the sergeant, and sooner or later we get down to the subject of food and leave and then we start all over again. One day, when I find a girl who is ready willing and able to discuss some matter other than the above mentioned topics on a RAAF station I will fall flat on my face in a foaming fit and will then be a patient in my own hospital. We have no sports facilities on the unit but can play tennis in the village on Saturdays on the town courts. This is pleasant enough if we can manage to get a game, but it usually is rather crowded, so we just take a packet of biscuits and an apple and go out and sit and brood and watch the sky.
-Wo lv in long tin huts, there isn'pt a two E%orey builczin:, on the entire rsto7.e and from the distance it looks like Sa 999999," :Pho
-WAA7: are in.,?+;hat we refer to as the ComQouud. rounds lie an orcl3F-Jre for wild aninals, '211,:ro are not many girls her anCA IFA-1 hove about 24 to huti and you
+----
- -0:et it is about as ',oriva+,e as a :oo, Isn't Pxtraz)r(qinary the
-griF go th..rol:An -hen 2remarinEz fflr bed? VI,- have lttt]n f1,a
-E:oves in 1,he tr of the huh pnr', al: a:m.1nd it at night our
-unhappy lot r-ad .1.scur7,sing whHL the sea..gan c and wnt w id To
-sergeant, and ooa or later vm gFt (r-Tvia o hh subject of food end
-ac d then we start ail over e.Faan One whri I nirl who 's
-willing and ablP TO d'Irc,us so7lc c:LI;or than the a'cv)ve mcntioned. To7)ics on
-a 'RUF station f;7-11 flPt in a foan:::ig fit and wi:11 then he a
-pent on my own orspf_tal, no snorts on the unit bob :an
-plrv tennis jr. the village on Sz turCLPT- on the tr,wn This 7"Ls
-enough if we can nanag to ot P amo but i. -c.:5-r1.1:1,y is ratI= cix0(1-.d; R: lust take a larsi---t of and R11apnl. onL go -2.1)t and sit in r,Le and brood and watch th7
-.0 ...........
 FEDERT710N WO7ES
 PLAXIAND B7-T.LLKT7G CLTT At the Ausw:st meeting the newly formed Blaxl:ard