Coote delayed in Alice Springs by a howling gale followed  rain then a dust storm.

Truck finished at last and Terry spends all day writing up reports for Carrington as the Mining Warden for Central Australia, arranges with the Police to have the camels returning to Lambina to carry out 15 cases of petrol, six fifties of flour and two 70’s of sugar, that’ll lighten the load on the old Morris.