Overview
Tues. Feb. 23
A very fine dry day. Father + the others drenched lambs with Cooper's tablets + culled some lots of ewes. I rode up to North Block to finish drafting race in my sheep-yards + Maud rode up with me. She again fired the sawdust + a good breeze springing up, it burned in great style sending up dense clouds of very pungent smoke + at times sheets of flame. She gave me quite a fancy dinner, spreading a newspaper for a table-cloth + serving up hot potatoes, sardines, bread, jam, tea etc. After dinner we walked up on to the terrace above the sawdust + took a 1/4 pl[ate] photo (1) of it burning: + (2) Maud sitting in the deck chair just outside my whare. I got on well with my work, finishing race + making + hanging race-gate + hanging dagging-pen gate. Later I moved a heap of timber into the stable so there will be less danger of that building catching from the sawdust fire.
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Maud make a couple of nice little pencil sketches which she intends to colour, one of me working in the sheep-yards + one of the footbridge + Cliff on Makahika river where the Gladstone Road crosses it. We both had a very happy day - left for home at 5.30. Helped among sheep till after dark + then spent the evening - the last this holiday - with dearest. very warm evening - sky clear. During the last few days Germany has attempted to piratically blockade England, by sinking, principally by means of submarines, the vessels of all nations, neutral or otherwise. There has been a German advance in East Prussia, where the Russian army has been pushed back by wgt [weight] of numbers. To-day we read of another German aeroplane flying over England + dropping bombs on defenseless towns - no one was killed. Dalgety + Co, Wgton [Wellington] valued my 6 bales of ewes wool at 12 1/4 d [pence] per lb [pound].
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