SNOOPINGS

Dozerdust, Volume 1, Issue 22, 13 November 1943, Page 5

SNOOPINGS

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HELLO-folks, X just been down to the coast lookin’ up the Wharf , boys. I guess I had a good time Bittin’ on a heap of rope watchin’ the lads at work. It ’aint like work on the wharves in .'aw Zealand, or so I hear ’em say in.’ These boys got something different on their hands. Same as when they make concrete. they start off with mighty little and* before you know where you are they have something to do the job with. • : ; >3VBR meet ” Shorty " Lovell ? He’s a little guy like me, but he f a travelled at lot and you should hear him on the piano. But get him on the jeep and, whew 1 It’s like this. ” Shorty ” drives for Capt. Clarke, he’s O.C. of the Coy., well all you got to do it tell Shorty " someone else is goin* to do the driving, or that someone’s rubbin their boots on the wheel. You get music from ” Shorty ” that no piano could give. But ha aint a bad sort and he always picks up when he tells you of the family back home. So does Bddie Heald. Guess there must be something good about bein’ married, ’cos all the chaps when they get tired just take a lock at the photographs of the family and feel-bitter after. I t take at keek at them too when no one s lookin’. Seems to me you boys and girls look pretty good. Different from these little brown boys and girls that run arouxid hero - barefooted. I just been used to the wee fellas out in tho Islands. Be nice to know boys and girls likg you. I thought of askin’ you to write to me, but 1 guess you’re all too busy writin* to Dad. : i : Of course we got soma young fellas in tho wharf Coy. You know young Nod Sainsbury, he used to worij in a bank they tell me; then thcro is ” Curly ” Griffin, he had a job pushin g pen too. Guess these lads wont settle down when they go back: they’ll be same as m0...maybe......♦

BUT they all want to go back to Hew Zealand in a big hurry. They all say that. Listen’ in the other night I hoard Mcrv. Forscutt, Burchall, Mulholland arguin’ which was best part of N>Z. and they all seem to say different places,but tneso chaps that come from Auckland geo, they talk plenty bout the / \ place. But guess it must be pretty good. And I ’spose the girls ar. all as nice as the boys say. When you knock round way I do, you do nt find many nice girls. Some wont look at a little guy like me 'cos my pop didn t have his name in hte stud book., or 'cos he wasn’t rollin in cash. But your girls seem different. They look good, are kinda •. straightforward and no hanky-panky about 'em. That’s good. And I reckon that’s why you aughta look after yourselves and keep that way".':', : ; • SAY, here’s Lieut. Wright cornin’ along, guess I’d better scoot. /He/" might try to give me a job. Mind you he aint a bad sort, but I go|a keep opin oh, the bpys. Guess I 11 sec if Capt. Clark’s goin’ out/in 71 /- ths jeep. Have to watch " Shorty n ' doesn’t see me sneak in. Before I go, ’spose I say , Merry Christmas, to all you little Kiwis in New Zealand. ..best wished from BNOQH3R for 1944.