Eric MacNider's wartime diary: View pages

“Dover Road” (play reading) (Tomlinson, Wadeson, J. Smalley, D. Holloway, Shields) (Colledge)

Wittenbach / Alton

(Meat )

Engineers, Customs, harbour, docks men went to C.S.O. and asked how long been in firm before war and how long in HK.

B.M. Wongtong ￥280, matches ￥20 box

E Read (SS) arrested – sugar (what sold, customers asked to return). Toihan ((sp.? Looks like Toihan but maybe Tollan?)), Bendall, Trevor Edwards also. Read slept in C.S.O

B.M. Taikoo cube sugar  ￥ 600 lb

“42% cut in sugar owing to thefts from godown”

Outdoor a.m. roll-call (if coats worn must button)

Issue of 3 ½ packets cigs. ￥5.60

Classical Mozart concert (Goodban)

Club

Short/Martin

(Meat)

To Mr. & Mrs. Williams, a son.

All raw rice to be handed in to Bl. Reps. and then to communal kitchens 

B.M. at standstill

600,000 catties firewood due by junk

Bank deposit box papers handed to internees – NOT jewellery

Firewood landed

Outdoor am roll-call

80 lbs shark’s liver oil delivered by I.R.C.

pm inspection of hospital

worked on wood all night

Rose / Ponting

workers cigs

Meat

pm roll call trouble – all called bk

told no more sugar until deficiency made up

B.M. Lard Y1,200, pork 1,000, cigs. 50

death – Albert Victor Frain (48)

Strange “bomb” incident Bung. A.B. & other S.S. are hit by seaplane (jettison)

Hurt – Myhill, Leida Wood, Harrison, etc, (J. visited T.B. Hospital)

Outdoor am – roll-call

Kadowaki addressed internees on “raid by American plane" & on subject of bowing ((sp.))

C.S.H. Dow / Brown (baptism of Heath baby)

To Mrs. Hansen, a girl (stillborn)