From Melbourne
20.6.83
Dear Alan,
We
received your letter last week. I have found your books and notes. I am just
sorting out the books. Your range of reading is from one extreme to the other.
I won’t send them all in one parcel. Just a few books at a time by airmail.
Other way takes too long. I will send all your text books then could you tell
me which notes. They will take some sorting out.
By the
look of the news you must have some water by now. What kinds of natives are the
ones in the photos. In all the old books on Africa the natives in the south
were called Hottentots but you never seem to see that word now. They are not
supposed to be as dark as the other natives they are more like the bushmen.
Beverley
and Pamela both went to weddings this weekend. Beverley went to a girls from
the Uni but Pamela went to Jenny Doubleday’s wedding. She married an American
who has been over here building oil rigs and leaves now for Indonesia and
doesn’t know whether she will be ever back to live in Australia.
Did I
tell you Geoffrey Patterson is getting married in July can’t remember whether I
did or not. Still hasn’t found a job since he came back from Europe. Since Labour came to power there has been no improvement
at all in the economy if anything it is still getting worse. Mr Roper the
minister for Health in Victoria has been getting a lot of flak from the medical
students because he said he cannot guarantee them all an internship when their
studies are finished. In all the letters @ articles in the paper the medical
students are not getting any sympathy because too many people are finding it
hard to get job. There was a letter in the paper today from a science PhD
graduate who has to go overseas for a position. He thought it was about time
doctors had to compete in the market place like everybody else.
Pamela
is gradually improving with her driving lessons. Last time we left the car park
and went around the streets in the middle of Sunshine. It was Sunday afternoon
and hardly anyone was around.
Saw a
program on religion about odd sects that some of the Zulus have in their own
lands. There were people who worked in Durban who had nothing to think of
except what their religion offered them. They were dressed in long white robes
with a blue sash or cross. There was another group who dressed in traditional
clothes. They had some odd ideas but
when they sang as a group it sounded much better than our singing. I also saw a
program on Lucia lakes in Zululand. We seem to have seen lots about Sth Africa
lately but not about apartheid.
Love
from Mum
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