Correspondence relating to William Dunstan, August - December 1945 - Part 3

4.
September 1st, 1945.
4. The Goss Printing Press Company, 1535 South Paulina
Street, Chicago. You know about this one.
Bob Corlett, the President, is one of my best
friends and you will have everything that opens
and shuts there. Here too you will meet the
Vice President, Mr. Riggs, a good friend; and

Mr. P. Riley, Sales Manager - ditto.
5. In Vancouver B.C.- providing you get there - you will
have the Powell River Paper Company. We are
also good customers. I have excellent friends
here in the President - Harold Foley, and the
General Manager - Robin Bell-Irving, and Sales
Manager - Bill Barclay.
That about exhausts Gollin & Company.
Now for my own direct contacts -- these are:-
1. CHARLES VINING - 809 Sun Life Building, Montreal
(and Doris Vining). This is No. 1 Priority
and a MUST. This will be first port of call.
In Montreal too you will go to your Uncle Arthur Lamb
(Dr.) at McGill University and probably stay
with him and Aunt Viola.
No. 2. Priority is BRUCE FALLOWS - at 975 Sun Life
Building, Montreal, who is my great friend and
help in the newsprint business.
No. 3. Priority. You must look in on PAUL KELLOGG, at
the same address as Bruce Fallows. He will
be very nice to you.
No. 4. Priority. ARTHUR DAWE - at St. Maurice Valley
Sales Company in the same building. I think
he is on the 20th floor. A grand chap and

will want to spoil you, so watch out.
From here on you'll get introductions and Charlie
Vining and Bruce Fellows will indicate who you must cultivate.
I'd like you to pay a courtesy call on Mr. Morris
Wilson, President of the Royal Bank of Canada - Mr. P.M. Fox,

President of the St. Lawrence Paper company - Mr. Dick Doane,
Vice President of the International Paper Company -

5. September 1st, 1945.
- Colonel H.C.L. Jones, President, The Mersey Paper Company.
With 1. 2. 3. and 4 you can let your hair down a
bit, but be on formal behaviour with the rest.
From Montreal you will to to New York. Here you
might strike big expense so go carefully. Josh Powers, or
Abe Rothman, or perhaps Randall Heymanson will ask you to stay
with them. Probably Joshua Powers. If so, beware
Mrs. Josh (Susan). She is mad on men and you will have work
to do. This is no joy trip.
Here's the list for New York -
1. JOSHUA B. POWERS, 345 Madison Avenue, New York, who
is Herald Business Representative. You'll 
meet a fine bloke and make a good friend.
This will be Headquarters. Here you will
meet Josh's brother, Al., a good friend, -
Jack Clarke and Alexander McFeggans.
2. BALFOUR GUTHRIE & CO. - is listed above (Davidson,
Thompson and Downie are the individuals).
From them get introductions to their San
Francisco office.
3. MELBOURNE HERALD CABLE SERVICE - (Josh Powers will
take you down and introduce you to Randall
Heymanson, who can be a marvellous help to you
in all ways, particularly priorities and
passage home.
4. AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS - (Josh Powers again
will introduce you). Meet Bill Tonkin the
Chief.
5. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD CABLE SERVICE - Abe Rothman,
whom you know.
3.,4. and 5. are all in adjoining offices in the Times
Building, 229 West 43rd Street.
REMEMBER - always - Josh Powers will steer you.
 

6. September 1st, 1945.
Calls upon -
James Wright Brown, Publisher of
"Editor and Publisher" - Courtesy call.
Friendly call on -
Oscar Roesen, of Wood Machinery
Corporation; 501 Fifth Avenue, N.Y.
Harvey Brundage, of Cline Electric Co.
Harry Tillinghast, of Hoe Company,
138th Street and East River, N.Y.
Harry Mount, of Goss Company
Theodore Racoosin, 551 Fifth Ave, N.Y.
Mr. A Niemeyer, of Medo Photo Supplies
15 West 47th Street, N.Y.19. - He will
probably want to buy your camera. He
married a Bendigo girl and is mad on
Australians, which is a good advertisement
for Mrs. N.
If you can manage it - a call on
Mr. Joseph Rovensky, of the Chase National
Bank, Wall Street, N.Y. - and
Mr Wilbur Forrest, at the New York
Herald Tribune, 230 West 41st Street, N.Y.
Get Josh Powers to take you to the Mergenthaler
Linotype Company at Brooklyn - Hoes - Woods - and other
manufacturing companies. Have a look at all the Printing
Houses you can get into with the aid of Josh, Harry Mount,
and Oscar Roesen, and Harry Tillinghast. They should be
plenty. Be observant and make plenty of notes - on the
spot - and write them up properly before going to bed each
night.
FROM NEW YORK TO PHILADELPHIA - Before you get this
far I'll have George Caro turned loose on the job and letters
will reach you. But in Philadelphia you should see the
Curtis Publishing Company - Saturday Evening Post - Ladies'
Home Journal, etc, - besides getting a brain full of the 
Intertype Company.
 

7. September 1st, 1945.
CHICAGO NEXT - Follow same procedure as in New York
with Bob Corlett advising. See some Radio manufacturing
Companies in both places, if possible.
In New York Jack Clarke will take you to N.B.C.
In Chicago you should see others.
Take in the Goss activities fully. Spend days
and days in the works learning all you can. Get a grip of the
global trade they cover because you'll see nothing like it here.
For relaxation look up Commander Glen Sample - at
Dancer, Fitzgerald & Sample, 221 North La Salle Street,
Chicago 29.
Take in the Marshall Field Museum of Natural History
and a bit of the University of Chicago.
VANCOUVER B. C. next  - on through the Rockies and
look up Powell River Company, Standard Bank Building, Vancouver
- names given previously. Grand people. Take a trip to
Powell River if they want you to.
Pay call also on the Pacific Mills - Bill Barclay
will take you along.
SAN FRANCISCO - You can relax a bit here. Look
up Edric Brown, who you will remember used to visit us a lot
and his wife Hermione. They live at Oakland, but Edric can
be found at The Pacific Lumber Company, 100 Bush Street,
San Francisco.
Also Robert Scanlon, of Stewart Scanlon and Company,
216 Montgomery Street, San Francisco - biggest shareholder in
Powell River and a great chap.
You'll have letters from Balfour Guthrie to their
people.
If you need priorities, the Australian War Supplies
Procurement Office at 206 Sansome Street, San Francisco
(Mr. Sheahan) will help you. I think they will all remember
me.
Call on Mr. J.D. Zellerbach at Crown Zellerbach
Corporation, 343 Sansome Street, San Francisco. Courtesy
call and give him all the best from me.

8. September 1st, 1945.
LOS ANGELES - Here you'll meet one of the best -
C.P. MacGregor - 729 South Western Avenue, Hollywood - and he
will see that you get a look-see at the movie studios and the
night life of Hollywood. Wife's name is Mildred. Make
a fuss of them because they are fine people.
There's an Australian War Supplies Procurement
Office here too - (Ask for Mr. Davis) - 606 South Hill Street,
Los Angeles.
It may easily happen you will have to step out at
San Diego. If so the Australian War Supplies Procurement
man there is a good friend - Alan Howell - Room 1008, San Diego
Trust and Savings Building, 6th and Broadway, San Diego.
This should be a sufficient guide book for you.
Don't lose it, as it will be your guide to most of what you
need.
In between this apparently fearsome programme you'll
find a few days to enjoy yourself. For instance, Abe
Rothman might invite you to Strawberry Hill. It's a wonderful
place. Chick MacGregor has a one-cow ranch.
When travelling by train you'll find a lot to
interest you and a lot to learn and you can get friendly with
fellow travellers, as long as you watch out for sharks.
Remember there are over 130 million people in the United States
and quite a lot of crooks turn up in even a small percentage,
but mostly you'll find them very friendly to Australians.
I'll take steps to find out about the dollars quickly.
In fact, as soon as I finish this letter I'm writing to the 
Bank.
Your letters of August 8th and 17th were most
interesting, but all too short. You have seen quite a bit
of the country and at a good time of the year and now you
probably understand why all Britishers refer to the United
Kingdom as Home? I remember Ken James, a nice fair haired
bloke - of Witton James Electrics. I was amazed about the
1/- a word Kennedy - Very important bloke!!! The way he
patronizes me, you'd never guess he'd once been my assistant.
I'm glad you like Charlie Baumgartner. I'm very
fond of him.
Hope you're cultivating Douglas Wilkie.
Write soon and let me know the state of your finances.
How much do you expect from deferred pay, gratuity and so on?

9. September 1st, 1945.
Also be sure to tell me if it's true about the
payment for passage home, which I referred to before?
The pictures brought by Hugh Syme have been a
great comfort to your Mother. Suggest you send some more,
in the new uniform which Bert Wolfe tells me you are getting
and complete with all ribbons mentioned by Syd Rowell.
I haven't seen Hugh Syme yet. He's a peculiar
bird. He gave the pictures to Bunnie Price and didn't
even telephone me.
This seems to be the lot and you'll say - quite
enough too! I'll write more perhaps when I've seen
George Caro.
One last reminder - Charles Vining and Doris are
No. 1. priority, but you'll have to make much of the Lambs.
Fondest love from us all -
P.S.
Be punctilious in writing to hostess or host, when
you have been shown any hospitality. This is
important.

309493 Captain W. Dunstan,
care Melbourne Herald Cable Service,
85 Fleet Street,
LONDON. E.C.4. ENGLAND.

309493, CAPTAIN W. DUNSTAN,
care The Melbourne Herald Cable Service
85 Fleet Street, LONDON. England.
3rd September, 1945.
My dear Mum,
The last letter which I wrote to you was on the
day I went to Preston to visit Jim Edwards. I didn't arrive
there until very late that night and didn't see Jim until the
following morning at breakfast.
He took me out to the Goss works where I spent
most of the morning looking at the machinery there. Strangely
enough, they are still largely engaged on war work. In the
afternoon one of his salesmen drove me about the surrounding
countryside, which is very beautiful at this time of the year.
Quite a lot of the afternoon was spent in sampling the local
brew in the various inns which we visited.
The next day I decided to spend the week-end in
Scotland, so I caught the afternoon train and arrived in
Edinburgh in the evening.
I had forgotten all about your letter asking me
to look up Mr. Fairley, but the next morning when I was reading
through a couple of your old letters I came across it. I
went to the antique shop and saw his son, who asked me to visit
his father at Lauriston Castle during the afternoon. I went
out and saw the old boy, who is 84 years old and he showed me
over the place, including all its secret passages and rooms.
The Castle is situated in a beautiful spot overlooking the Firth
or Forth - it was a perfect day of sunshine, so everything was
at its best. We had a long discussion about the family and
came to the conclusion that his mother was your grandmother's
sister. He also showed me a portrait of one James McIntosh,
who must be my great-great-great-grandfather. The furthest
he could trace back was William, James' father who died of
yellow fever in Trinidad while an officer in the Army at the 
end of the 18th century. It was all very interesting and I
enjoyed hearing all about it.
I stayed to dinner and met his son again - also
his son's wife and children - two nice little boys who wear
kilts and speak with such a broad accent that I had difficulty
in following them. The dinner, cooked by the old housekeeper,
was one of the best I have had since leaving home.
While in Edinburgh I stayed at the Dominion
Officers' Club and shared a room with a New Zealand Flying
Officer. He had met two girls in the Club the night before,
who invited him and a friend for a picnic on the Sunday. He
asked me to go along with him.

2.
These two bonnie Scottish lassies picked us up
in their car and took us for a wonderful drive through the
country south of Edinburgh - it is extraordinary how far the
basic petrol ration will take you in England these days!
Altogether I had such a pleasant week-end that
I didn't mind the wretched all-night train trip back to London,
where I arrived at eight this morning.
Mr. Cresswell-George rang this morning and has
asked me to do a theatre with he and his wife to-morrow night.
I didn't know he had arrived back or I would have contacted
him long before.
Had a letter from Cam O'Donell this morning,
telling me that his romance with Loris Nicol must have had a
war-time finish because it petered out after twelve months.
He says that he, Dave, Dick and Capper will be out of the Army
within a few weeks. I wish I could say the same for myself.
My leave finishes in two days' time, so after
that I probably won't get any mail from you for some time,
but I will post letters at every port of call.
That is all the news I can think of at present.
Your very loving SON.

September 3, 1945.
The Manager,
The National Bank of Australasia Ltd.
Eastern Branch,
71 Collins st.,
MELBOURNE. C.1.
Dear Sir,
3093493 - Captain William Dunstan,
363 Battery, 91st Field Regiment,
Royal Artillery.
The abovenamed is my son. He is at present in Europe,
21st Army Group, having served in North Africa, Palestine and
Syria with the 7th Australian Division, and then transferred to
the British Army. He has since served in Palestine, Lebanon,
Iran, Italian campaign, and in France, Belgium, Holland Germany,
from just after D-Day to V-E Day. Then with Army of Occupation.
His repatriation to Australia should be imminent, and
I desire that he should return by way of Canada and the United
States, as part of his post-war education. Captain Dunstan is
in his 6th year of service, having enlisted from school age. He
is now 25. I understand the U.K. Government will pay his fare
to Australia.
He is to join the firm of Gollin & Co., in their
Printing Equipment and Allied Department. It is desirable that
he should visit in Canada and U.S. those concerns for which Gollin
& Co. are agents in Australia, viz. -
Price Brothers, Paper Manufacturers, of Quebec City.
Powell River Paper Company, of Vancouver, B.C.
The Goss Printing Press Company, of New York and Chicago.
The Intertype Corporation of Philadelphia.
He will/

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He will undertake certain training to fit him for his
new position. The bulk of the cost of travel will have to be
found by me. He will need to spend upwards of four months in
Canada and U.S., and will require living costs plus fares.
About the most I can afford to spend is Two thousand
(2000) U.S. dollars. I accordingly make application for exchange
to this extent. I have contacted the Foreign branch of the
Commonwealth Bank, Melbourne, and have been assured sympathetic
consideration in view of the educational (rehabilitation) aspect
of this visit.
The Commonwealth Bank asks that I submit this application
through you. In doing so I should be glad if you would
point out that 2000 dollars is minimum requirement, but if fares
become too heavy I may need a little more assistance.
With thanks,
Yours faithfully,
(W. DUNSTAN).