In Afternoon Dorothea & I went in to a meeting in Launceston of the Suffrage Society, I had to take the chair. We decided to discontinue all Suffrage work & use the small funds we have to help the distress in Launceston which will be caused by high prices & loss of work. After the meeting we went to tea with Mrs Horlock, she told us that a cousin of hers, Mrs Acland was in Germany with her husband, that no news of them had they heard. Whilst we were having tea in rushed Mr Frank Rodgers with the tiding that they were safe and five minutes after Mrs Cole came in with a telegram from Mrs Acland herself sent off from Paddington.

They were all so excited about it especially as Mrs Acland was Mrs Cole’s Sister.

As we were coming out of the town just by the gateway there were a number of horses being sold for army purposes.