Box-folder MS MSF SEQ 13267 BOX 4/9

Scope and contents Jenkins lives in his cottage in Maldon. He is employed by the Shire Council to clear roads and water channels and to do other odd jobs. He comments on the unruly behaviour of children in Maldon and his visit to headmaster Mr Smith to complain about them; intense heat making him sleepless and tired; reading the Bible on Sundays; sand fleas infesting clothes; geese helping to clean streets but some have been poisoned; bushfires; lack of rain and neglect of cattle; his dreams of Wales; ill...