WHAT HE THINKS.
In reply to the innocent questions*-* s Do you think the war has made any difference to you?’*, Spr*» Gibbs did not hesitate to reply that he thought it would change the whole course of his life©
“You wouldn’t believe it, but I was only eight stone six when I came into the army in January of this year.... do you know what I am now©©*.. Ten stone fourl On the farm I worked like a slave? got up at four in the mornings the wife and 1 mi Ike d ninety cows between us ? and after break - fast at eight o’clock I had to turn to end do the work on the farms Very often I
had to get the wife to do such work as harrowing and other jobs I should have had a man to do*”
’You would say# then, that the army has surprised you? i 1 ®. o: r Yos, it seems to have given me more confidence in myself© Stuck on a farm in tiro Kai para Flats all my life, I had no kind of social life, and I never felt I was able to take part in things.... But here it is different* I am with the ’boys’, free from worry and am much happier©**
“Do you think you will go back to sharemilking?"o ©.• i? Not on your life* I’m going
to do work I’ve always wanted to do© I’ve
had my share of being a slave.
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Dozerdust, Volume 1, Issue 9, 7 August 1943, Page 2
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