From Melbourne
24.1.83
Dear Alan,
Just
a short note to pass on a letter to you. I am also enclosing a little of what
has been in the papers about the touring cricketers in South Africa. People
have strong feelings for or against this but the word often used by all is
“hypocrisy”. What comes up here all the
time is that the blacks are made “honorary whites” and not treated as most
blacks are. Also we don’t do much against other governments that are not
democratic.
Actually
most Australians are not very interested. Yesterday there was a one day match
between England and Australia at the MCG and it was a world record crowd for a
one day match – over 84 thousand. It was a good game close most of the time
with Aust winning.
This is
the last week of the holidays. Spent it mostly cleaning up the house but it
will do now for a long time. It has been very cool good weather for working but
no rain. We were at Trentham on Saturday and the fire is still burning in the
forest. That is two weeks ago! Fortunately we still have water so I could water
the smaller trees.
Love
from Mum.
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