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Letter from Dolly, Pencarrow, Tamahere, Warkato (New Zealand) to cousin Lily Burrows

8 Dec 1942

From: 1942 To: 1942

Lots of fir trees on this farm “you could find lots of pretty spots to paint” These parts were settled by early English settlers and they planted English trees and pines and hawthorn hedges Christmas plums will soon be ripe but do not have enough sugar to make jam or bottle them. In New Zealand on the farms we bottle dozens of bottles of fruit, we put them down in thick syrup. Writer’s brother Alban manager of Bank of New Zealand at Hamilton, their boy Bill a lieutenant. Husband Frank

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personal correspondence, New Zealand, trees