Publication: Melbourne Herald
Date: 19 August 1922
dere frend wot times the balloon goin up? i see the fedril members is torkin about rejuicin their celeries is it only tork or ar they goin to do it. it seems to me a bit tuff when a man as got to cut to cut too undred quid orf is celery of is own free will me and bill smiths bin torkin it over and we reckin if it appened to anny of us we wud be darn neer broke i ope they aint no ladees pres- sent too hundred quids about fore quid a week we reckined it up on a bit of paper and we ar wondrin if them members is cuttin out ther beer or resolin ther boots they got to do somethin. Anyways me an bill smiths got a skeem one or both of us is game to tak on the job and if it cums to cuttin price we ar willin to do it for sicks undred we done want to do annyman out of is job but bill smiths a bit of a torker and i aint to bad at ritin so we reckin the 2 of us wudent be bad members fer this distrik you mite put it up to bill use an tel im that our votes is ome and drid if ed make sevin undred we ar game to keep im in orfis til the cow's cum ome. Wich reminds me that the cows dident cum ome lars nite avin strate in the bush hoppin you ar the same yours truly Ben Bowyang.