{"id":257,"date":"2013-05-13T07:25:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T07:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warletters.falkor.gen.nz\/?page_id=257"},"modified":"2013-06-27T01:33:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T01:33:24","slug":"norman-mum-13-apr-1917","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/warletters.falkor.gen.nz\/?page_id=257","title":{"rendered":"Norman – Mum: 13 Apr 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"

Military Camp
\nFeatherston
\nApril 13th 1917
\nDear Mum,
\nThere is next to no news yet as we have found out nothing since coming back to camp. \u00a0If anything Neil is a little more firmly fixed to his present job owing to the prospect of something a lettle better in the near future in the clerical line but there is no certainty about anything so far. \u00a0I had a bit of a struggle to get aboard that train but I landed it all right and had one of the rottenist trips I ever made on a train. \u00a0No passengers were to be taken aboard at Frankton, but Neil managed to get on although he had to do without a seat until we reached Taihape. \u00a0The carriages were terribly close and stuffy and I felt very sick and dizzy and had to spend a lot of time out on the platform the soot and grit being preferable to the bad air inside. \u00a0I could not get a wash in the train and when I arrived at the hutment some would be humourist passed some remark about Uncle Tom having come back to his cabin. \u00a0All day yesterday I felt as if things were all upside down but they seem to have got right side up again today and I am just about back to normal again to use camp language. \u00a0We have not got that cake yet and we are giving the Post Office a stir up occasionally to keep them from forgetting. \u00a0I can’t write any more tonight as the electric light has failed again and I have had to write this in semi darkness.<\/p>\n

Good by just now
\nNorman<\/p>\n

I will get Neil to write as soon as I can<\/p>\n

The pastuy (?)<\/span> went A1 although Neil didn’t get away with as much as I did. \u00a0Perhaps Frankton had something to do with it.<\/p>\n

Post watch to Featherston please.<\/p>\n