Overview
Leslie Adkin continues to work on his father’s property Cheslyn Rise, near Levin. Farming activities this month include mustering, dagging, shearing, selling stock, pipe-draining, clearing land, and fencing. Leslie often works on the farm with two farm labourers, Jim and Anstice, and with his brother Gil (Gilbert). Another labourer, Laing, works separately drilling turnips and cutting hay.
Leslie writes often to his sweetheart Maud Herd, and on the 24th he joins the Herd family at their home in Hastings. They have ‘truly a Merry Xmas,’ and on the 26th attend a Mardis Gras procession and carnival in Napier. Leslie takes a number of photographs on his new ¼ plate camera.
In his spare time Leslie likes to read novels, and he also worships regularly at church.