1 D1633/1/1/211 The budget will hit
us badly, as not only
do we pay 1/4 of our
income in income
tax but we shall pay
at well over another 1/4
with the excess profits
tax, as tho' our income
in some has gone
down to nearly nil, that
from others e.g. Rubber has
suddenly increased & this
Govr is taking 60 per cent
of the profits. We shall
contribute £1000 to the state
this year, but thanks to
a prb management
we can do so all right 2 D1633/1/1/212 Douglas not yet returned
Hope he is all right. My house might be
worse. It is a labourer's
cottage but won with
brick floors & rather
damp but I am getting
it better now. We are
in a Protestant village,
but the church has had
to be used as an office 3 LANCASHIRE DUMP and AUTHUILLE VILLAGE completed
17th instant. He estimates that it may take another 6
weeks before he can extend the tramway to the bottom of
THIEPVAL WOOD, and until this extension is made the tramway
is of little value to the Division, except as an alternative
route for taking stores. Stores are now being taken into
AUTHUILLE VILLAGE by transport at night and as long as this
is possible it will not be worth while unloading them at
on to the trench tramway for conveyance up 4 36th Div. No. G.S/5/ 10th Corps. Your G. 347 of 8.3.16. The Officer Commanding the 3rd Monmouths Company
detailed by you for tramway construction near AUTHUILLE
expects to get the portion of the tramway between
about