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Dear Aunt.

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We're full of work and worry just now and I can only write a note to catch the mail. Bertha expects to be confined early in January & I am taking her to Wellington next week. If I don't get a good billet there, and the doctor thinks its safe, I'll run across to Sydney. I've got a good deal of work from England and hope to get there next year. I will write you as soon as I get to Wgton; but I'm nearly certain to go over. Remember me to the boys. Love from Bertha