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[photo] Joan sitting 
in front of 
the Richmond 
Hotel, Portland 
Sunday morning 
Sept 26'\ [1954] 
Sept 26^^ We had been, for a short 
(8) time the previous evening at Noel 
[?] Learmouth's house, and while there 
had made arrangements to go out 
the next day. Consequently the Learmouth's 
collected us from the hotel at 10.30 and 
we went out the Bridgewater road and 
collected Cliff Beauglehole, then turned in 
a track on the right, which was in 
fact the old road from Portland to 
Nelson. We were joined there by 
the Rawlson Thompsons, recently retired to 
Portland and out for the day rather 
