I am more than glad to hear the Bingfield is sold & that by now you should be out of it - that is the first step to coming out to this part of the world & I hope the next step will be taken as soon as possible.

Our wool was sold on the 13th.  Altogether seven of us were down for it and we were treated like kings!  The all powerful Dalgety & Co.  are our agents & they got us rooms & generally looked after us so we had a most enjoyable & interesting trip.  I spent most of the time with wool - either watching it being sold or going round it on the show floor.  On her first afternoon we were taken over the wool stores by one of the Dalgety's men; we were each given a catalogue & I took copious notes for Whitehead's information.  Next morning I was round there again & met any number of station people also going over their clips.  We were photographed by three different papers & I enclose one it in another envelope.  Two reporters also got hold of me & in an expansive moment I fill them up with a lot of rubbish which I also duly enclose!  In the middle of all this the state governor & party arrived & he had want us to see our wool - we left. During the actual sale I sat in the front row of the onlookers gallery & smoked three Corona cigars & I am glad to say prices justified the expenditure!  Our super ???ing got 37¾d as opposed to 34¼d last year.  Average per lb.  was 28½d & average per bail was over £40 & we had 306 bales so you can see what the gross return will be.  Anyway each of us should be able to put away £200 this year of from wool alone.  Our prices beat Major Currie's and he grows pure Marino and & we also beat all the surrounding comeback stations so we are reasonably proud of our little selves!  I was in Dalgety's until 1130 that night working out the averages and & eventually went to bed dog tired.  I came back next day.

The Xmas festivities have more or less started now - tomorrow I'm off for a bathing picnic at Fellalabad & on Sunday I go to Titanga until Boxing Day.  I then coming here for the tennis tournament & and will stay with Rables at the Cole's place about 15 miles out.  They own Cloven Hills, about 45,000 acres and R.  is playing with the daughter in the tournament.  I am merely there to see fair play! ???  New year's eve Badham, the two Ettrich Currie girls & self go to Ercildoune for a dance & will probably stay the night at a pub in Beaufort; the Langs were also be there so we should be a cheery  party.  After all that I come back to earth again!

Meanwhile our harvesting has begun & we are going hard.  The crop is not good owing to the wet & some of it is musty.  I myself have been fencing lately, hard work in the heat but I want to put up bicep muscles for the tournament.  And we were fencing near our S??? Lake so nothing was easier than to jump in now and then for a swim which was glorious.  I played tennis again at Ettrich last Sunday but played badly - I'm hopelessly out of practice & simply haven't had time for any lately.  

Last night we were out at a very jolly dance as Eddie Clonifold's place "Wind???" & I'm going to have one here in Camp tonight so hence the notepaper!

I haven't heard from Aunt Bessie since I came out here and haven't a notion where she is.

Did I tell you that Spooner has gone back to India - taking with him two horses which he hopes to sell.  It is doubtful if he even comes back.

Please thank Daddy for the £2-2.  The leather jerkin sounds useful thanks awfully for the other things they should arrive soon.