Warmtoast (#27),
...They were enormously hot during the day with the heat of the sun radiating off the bare corrugated iron roof (which made a terrible din when it rained), but it was luxury compared to living in a brown tent...
True, but why not a woven palm leaf thatch like the Post Office ? Only snag with those, as I recall, was the insect population which dwelt in them, and flopped down from time to time!
Danny.