Construction of the Huts

these notes were written by my father on the photographs

these are my comments     click photo to enlarge
Showing the tents the loggers were sleeping in this was intended to show me on the roof but the light got to the film somehow.  The fellow you can see is me fixing rafters
Just got a floor down. I took this. Hallam is busy superintending. That is him standing up on the floor. There is three of our men there so he is having an awful anxious time. The man by the ladder is one of Wilson & Bradys. He is carting timber for us. The first hut. Sunday washing day with one of the chaps. Hallam, myself and a fellow washing clothes. The first Sunday we were there. We were living in that hut. Father will see we are standing on joist thrown across two logs flattened one side. Loggers prepare them and put them in position.
Hallam & one of the carpenters. These are the first two buildings. Two carpenters nailing on strips & two loggers getting logs in position ready for us to build on
I am the other end of that pair of rafters but not in view Another on of me and another fellow on the roof. Out of focus again. We are nailing 1" x "6" on the rafters to take the shingles
Here is another one of me on a roof. The light got to this one too. You will see I have a bandage round my wrist. I had run a nail into it just previously. Father will note that we are working without a scaffold. I am balancing myself on a 2" x 4" plate & hoisting up a pair of rafters that are nailed at the joint. We did most of the roofs that way. No ridge. I took this to show how some of the huts were packed up on account of low ground. It is out of focus
Just finished work and taken my overalls off [no annotation]
The cookhouse. I put that ventilator in. I would like Father to see the construction. Louvres are just nailed in not housed. Cill is nailed to 2x4 uprights no morticing. Note the scaffold. Thats me again of course. Yes thats me
Storehouse. I am standing in the doorway The patch of white at the end is steam from one of the engines. Camera is out of focus or it would have shown it
[a view of the huts nearly complete] [a view of the completed huts with the tide ou]t
Another view of the huts taken from the rocks when the tide was out The huts all finished. You will see the railway leads down to the pier. It comes from the forest at present & only runs to the edge but they expect to go four miles into the wood. The huts are not all level but that is not our fault. We build on the foundation prepared for us.
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