August 22, 2018 AD
Bixbus Tent Community Register, 22 August 2018
The fifth day of the Bixbus Tent Community and the first with all fourteen tents and 252 cots already standing. With nothing left to put up, the work turned to moving settlers out of their camping tents and motorhomes and onto cots.
The Count
- Residents at start of day: [carried from 21 August]
- Arrivals: [to be set]
- Departures: [to be set]
- Residents at end of day: [to be set]
- Tents standing: 14
- Beds standing: 252
- Beds in store: 0
Conditions
For the first time there was no canvas to raise. The day went on moving people in. Settlers who had spent the past month in camping tents, cars and motorhomes carried their belongings across to the rows and were given cots, and Aaron Smyth kept a list of who had gone into which tent. Work crews dug further latrines along the line Aaron had marked out the day before and began carrying water to the wash area in jerry cans from the river.
Beds standing still far outnumbered people sleeping in them, and most tents were less than half full that night.
Arrivals
[to be set]
Departures
[to be set]
Roll
[to be set]
