Overview
Thurs Mar 27
Kingdon came to draft fat lambs – picked 35 of the 38 best of “McKenzie’s” S[outh]-downs. Marked 123 of those on rape : – Total. 140 shorn + 18 wooly lambs at 13/- per head. Jim, Father + I rode to sect[ion] 37 + brought the 22 fat + forward heifers to 20 ac[re] p[addock]. Heavy rain drenched us all. Later in afternoon
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Bulliman cam + lifted 8 of these heifers at £5.10.0; also 3 fat lambs at 13/6. Aunts Ralph + Dixon came to stay for a few days. After work cycled down to Bruce Road to tea – introduced to a Miss Roberts – showed Maud the photos of herself taken on Easter Monday – all pleased with them. My invite to tea was to enable me to accompany Maud, Ralph Olive + Alice to a concert (in aid of school tennis club) at Otaki. The weather was very threatening but finally we decided to go + as it turned out the weather improved so that later in evening the sky was clear + the moon shining. Drove down in 1 ½ hrs – Maud + I in the back seat. The concert was held in the new (unfinished) town-hall + was a great success, some of the items by the school children being very amusing + entertaining. Maud gave a violin solo
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so I felt very contented. We, as long distance visitors, we[ere] provided with supper by the school committee. Left Otaki at 10.15. On way back home I could not hold out any longer + Maud + I exchanged our first kisses – it’s an amazing, wonderful thing that she should love me; God help me that I never hurt her or be cruel to her as long as I live, + that I may prosper for her sweet sake. Kissed “good night” (oh, the sweetness of it) + cycled home at 12.15 – bed at 1 am.