Melbourne
16.10.81
Dear Alan,
I am
sending two letters at the same time because your subscription arrived
yesterday. It is easier to send it to you and you can make up your mind. All your journals are here still in their
wrappers for when you want them. I have enclosed an article from the National
Times last month. In The Age this week was a picture of two young men lying
under a tree in the Fitzroy gardens. Underneath it said they are two young men
who had migrated from Norway and that they were finding it hard to get work.
They can always go back to their own country.
In the
article in the National Times it said that there are towns that should have had
dentists but have never had them before but have them now. Remember when the
Deer Park shopping center opened a couple of years ago a dentist started in a
room there. It must have been very slow to start and the shopping center has
been one big disaster but the dentist has just left the shopping center and
gone into rooms in Ballarat Rd in the main shopping center. He is the first dentist
there has been in Deer Park.
Lois
and Anne have both nearly finished their training but it will not be easy for
them to get jobs. Lois said about 15 girls from her course had got jobs already
but they are all in Private schools. Her friend has a job in a private school
in Darwin. For the last few weeks of the term she will be working every Friday
afternoon (and being paid) at Christ the King College in Braybrook. She will be
helping the home economics teacher because she has a lot of extra duties at the
end of the year.
Anne
has been at St Albans High and has been going on her own accord each Friday to
get extra practice and to watch some good teachers. She has just decided it
would have been better to teach maths and would have been easier to get a job
but she has been doing science. In maths she said you know exactly what you are
doing but science is a bit vague.
Beverley
is still selling crystal in the jewelry shop but she sent off another letter
with more information about nursing. She went out with Lois to a Rusden social
on Wednesday night and met a student from Monash Uni and went out it him last
night to a function at Monash Uni. It’s a pity she didn’t make some friends
while she was at Monash and then she would not be so lonely and unhappy.
Glen
has just been notified that he has got one of the positions in Malaya at the
Air Force base. It seems he is very young to get promotion to there. He seems
to be doing very well with his teaching. Shareen was supposed to have a baby
last week but it still hasn’t arrived.
On the 30th October we are going to Bruce’s
wedding. Only dad and I are going to the breakfast but everyone is invited to
the Church and the young people have been invited to a breakfast the next day.
As predicted Pamela is not going but I think Lois is. Beverley hasn’t made up
her mind which is usual.
Colin
has just graduated into the Navy and Jenny has just become pregnant the baby
isn’t due until May next year.
Next
Wednesday there is a play on Channel 2 –just a one act play and Iain Gardiner
has such a large or important part that his name is in the Green Paper. Looks
as if he has at last arrived but still it is very hard for even the top actors
to have steady work.
I will
have to finish this letter now as I want to post it before 5 o’clock. It will
have to be weighed. The letters seem to take a long time to get to you there
must be only one delivery a week.
Love
from
mum
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