Eric MacNider's wartime diary: View pages

Communal garden scheme in operation

[ Hara, Nimurii had 2-hr conference with Gimson & District Chairmen.  Sandbach acted as spokesman]

9.30 a.m. Outdoor roll-call

Ox tongue for pm meal

Workers received "back pay" cigarettes

NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER

Sandbach / Myhill / Betty Twydale

Birth - to Eileen Thirlwell, a daughter (Lydia Elizabeth) (& J Veriga)

((Barbara Anslow: Re The diary entry re Veriga and Eileen Thirwell. She was known to us as Aileen not Eileen. I think they married. Lydia was their child.))

((MacNider cleary writes "J Veriga", but the initial should be "V".))

Death - Mrs Florence Eileen Hyde (40)

Birth - to Mr & Mrs C Reddish, a daughter (Veronica Ann)

For sale - 1 x 5lb tin jam (light plum) Y500! 

Jenner

Pearson

Brown/Short

1st crop of s.p. ((probably "sweet potatoes")) for Camp from "Pumpkin" Hill 

One cigarette & one box of matches - 23 sen 

Med ex - wt 133lb, bp 110

Issue of oil & sugar

Death Mr Walter Pryde (57), PWD ((Public Works Dept.))

"Jap authorities determined to stop any trading except between internees within the Camps"

2 Canadian Red Cross Society parcels distributed (937 parcels - 8 parcels in each)

Outdoor a.m. roll call

Outdoor a.m. roll-call

Betty Twydale

Death - John McCallum Broom (62)

Short / Martin

Liver for p.m. meal

Light music by lan Heath

Death - Mrs Winifred Evelyn Dabelstein (39) (TB) (at T.B. Sanatorium)

Issue of one more Canadian parcel

p.m. meal - fried white bait, sprats and red mullet

Heath

Marie O'Connor

No more newspaper for Camp.

Camp "chicken" raffle (1921 tickets: Y25 sen each) won by Miss CS Rawlings (Bl. 4) drawn by Adrian Fortescue in presence of J.A. Stericker, in Central Social Hall.

((I only see Miss EM Rawlings on John Black's list, so not sure if Eric made a mistake here?))

Myhill / Sandbach

ELECTRICITY resumed 7.30pm to 9 only

Newspaper (HK News) resumed

Light music by Patty Mace

2.30pm "Call It a Day" by Dodie Smith (p. by W.H.E. Colledge - Nina Valentine, Richard Mills, Norah Witchall, Eric Kennard, Kathleen Davis, Kristine Thoresen, Evelyn Wyllie, Eve Grey, John Stericker, Joan Challinor, Jim Moodie, M.M. Mather, Anneka Offenburg, Ray Mabb, Stella Bander) (Ian Heath at the piano.)

Workers cigs issued