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Show WITH OUR READERS '-; i ' v.- - . i : Auckland, New Zealand January 10th, 1952 The Bulletin Staff and all the fine friends of the Sugar House Area and all points South East., Tena Koutou. My Dear Friends : Since time does not permit of many personal letters and obligation obliga-tion of friendship demands that we say an occasional "Hello" to the loved ones at home, we see no more fitting means than thru the pages of our good old home paper. With reports of deep snow and continued cold at home, we cannot can-not help appreciating the Land of Flowers and shorn sheep and contented cattle on a thousand hills. We are, however, having rather bad weather for summer time. I think there must have been a Hollywood agent of the Chamber of Commerce out here, because it is "Very Unusual Weather". This morning the sun is shining brightly but in an hour it may be raining again. TRAVELS Our travels thru the country however, are a constant source of amazement. Natures power of production is nothing short of miraculous. Planting one crop after another is common practice and the soil never need rest if sufficient fertilizer is also rather disturbing but President Pres-ident Gordon C. Young, my predecessor, pre-decessor, has done some splendid work among the governmental "Powej-s 'that Be" and we have been given splendid co-operation as compared to the usual run of the mill procedure. For this we are very grateful because we have a huge structural program, consisting of a large chapel in the city of Auckland, a large college in Hamilton about eighty miles distant and quite a number of local chapels throughout the mission. There is a great quantity quan-tity of material being shipped from the states but supplementing supplement-ing that it has been necessary to purchase a forest of lumber and establish our own saw mill to process it. We also have our own plant for the making of cement blocks and brick. George Bies-inger, Bies-inger, our own Sugar House boy is directing our building operations and is doing a fine job of it. His father and mother are currently visiting with us in New Zealand and will have some enlightening tales to tell on their return as I am sure our friends, Otto Buehner has already done. HERE'S HOW To be brief, we are happy with our work, though it is a. bit strenuous and the heavy climate is a bit hard on the constitution of high mountaineers, mountain-eers, but we have no time to think of ills and so keep going and enjoying every day of it. We trust that the year 1952 finds the Great Southeast still growing (I hope we will recognize recog-nize the place in a few years) and that the inhabitants are still cognizent of the fact that there is no place just quite like it. I have elders from Arizona to Canada and all know of Sugar House and the southeast Salt Lake area. With the very best wishes for your happiness and devotion to each other's interests, which has always characterized our Home Town Corner, we remain three of you in the Land Down Under. Sidney J. and Alice Ottley and Jerrv added, at least for nine months out of the year. My absence from the country for 36 years has brought to my attention the fact that nothing sleeps. The areas that were once almost impassible bush country are now easily covered with reasonable mileage, by car. Be it known, however, that we do no seventy and eighty per, since ninety percent of the highways high-ways are perpetual curves and there are few bridges that are more than two lane and most are one lane. The automobile association has charge of road markings and they do a bang up job of it. A member of that association can get wonderful service at a very nominal cost. Description of routes are outlined out-lined to the last detail on any trip you may wish to ask for. Makes it very convenient for a strange traveler. GETTING THERE Most of the time is spent in travel and it is done by everything every-thing from a row boat to a luxury liner. I took Sister Ottley into a back bush country on a flat bottomed truck last week. We find our building operations much retarded because of material ma-terial shortages and general disinclination toward productive labor on the part of the country as a whole. They love vacations almost as much as some of our working folk at home but I must say that they don't hit the ball quite as hard, between times as we do at home. The entangling tape of permits for everything is |